'John, you are finished' he told himself over and over again, as, bound hand and foot, he lay on the floor of his prison.
'You are going to have terrible things done to you, you will be screaming for mercy that will not be given to you. Folk that you have known will be jeering you, and wishing you more pain, more agony, and when you pass out they will cheer, and try to get you to your senses so that they can jeer again. And then, soon you will be no more – just a body to be cut up and put in the earth. Gone, and only remembered as a filthy beast.'
In medieval Jorvik, John the Dumb is condemned to death for a crime he did not commit.
His end will come on the following morning.
Rescued by the Ethereal Woman in White he leaves his prison. 'Go north,' says the lady and so he does. After many a faltering step he reaches Cairn and in the process creates a legend that lives on long after him.
