Your Majesty, it is merciful to kill a man before the set of the sun. For it is natural in a man to love the sun. But to see it set and to know that it will not come again is even a second death. It would be merciful to kill him now.
King Karnos:
I have said—at sunset. It were unjust to kill him before his prophecy is proven false.
Ichtharion:
But, your Majesty, we know that it is false. He also knows it.
King Karnos:
He shall die at sunset.
Ludibras:
Your Majesty, the prophet will pray for life if he is not killed now.
It would be pity to grant it.
King Karnos: