If the arbalest wasn’t poisonous, then the best I could hope for is for an incurable infection to set in….starting with the dangly bits between his legs….not that I have any strong feelings…..
However Ratassbastard dies, it has to be gruesome and lingering….
Julian had watched him from the trench on the first few days, from the supply wagons after that, from the siege tower on the past week. He had watched Rashid climb the battlements each morning with a rod of iron in his hand, had watched him strike the cage until the old man's cries echoed off the stone, had watched him laugh.