"Good people," I couldn't just jump into an ice-cold river in early spring without any preparation!
Now… the thing was, if someone was heavy enough, then they were going to sink.
I had no illusion that I could get that effect with food.
Or at least, not 100% of the time.
The Trial by Water was a simple thing. A barbaric thing.
If one floated, they were pulled out. Killed on the spot. Because, apparently, since there was no fish in extremely pure mountain water, then said pure water rejected everything.
But the Trial by Water was not always conducted in extremely pure mountain springs.
Not that the bloodthirsty mobs cared.
What one could hope for as the best-case scenario for one of those trails was to sink.
That meant that one had to stay under the water, drowning, until some bigot decided that the water accepted them and wanted to send them off to Heaven.