Butcher

Even with the mayor's silver tongue, there were still hundreds of people pushing against the gate to make their exit. These were people who knew the duplicitous nature of the mayor. They understood that he was keeping them in the town not for their good, but for his profit.

Some of them even knew that the mayor had sent his family out of the town the moment he realized that people were disappearing by the hundreds.

The mayor stood on top of the walls surrounded by guards but he still felt unsafe in the town. He could understand the position his people were in but this did not mean that he empathized with them. The people were there to serve their rulers and not the other way around. This was his belief and he was not going to let a single person escape from the town. He would rather capture and sell the entire town into slavery.