"I have other friends that will risk their lives to free you, if the rebellion fails."
"Why?" Boyce was confused momentarily and he needed to be given a reason why someone, who they didn't know, would die for their release.
"I had seen the doom and destruction of Palatka with your deaths, and so if you had but a hair harmed on your heads. Palatka must have peace with you, Boyce Loebh; yet, I don't exactly understand why?"
Munsen's reply fit into the men's understanding.
Somehow Munsen knew these prisoner's importance and he knew that their harm would mean the extinction of his civilization.
"We engage our uprising tomorrow. When you hear commotion and thunderous booming, keep low to the floor. We have found a way to make a burning substance that is explosive. It can shatter rock and kill."
"Please take care and may the true living God bless your victory."
"If we believed in Him, I would hope that it would be so!" Munsen said and before he left he told them that he would try to see them once more before the battle, and then he left them.
"He has a leader's compassion!" Boyce stated.
They wrapped themselves up in the blankets given to them and they drank the broth.