..Both get water, one gets a tear.The person who drinks the water with the tear gets all he years of life from the other...All the years that they have lived and they could have lived, if fate had been kinder"She also described how "the ritual requires a victim.It falls o the ground below, spooking Gratus' horse, throwing him into a wall and injuring him.Although it is clearly an accident, and Judah attempts to take the blame, it is interpreted as an assassination attempt.The pleasant young man spends his time carving wooden napkin rings as a hobby to calm his nerves: "You'd be surprised at the genuine rage you can work off just by carvin' a little piece of wood like that.' I say we stay here and fight it out," and then proposed having Duke Henry's men join them in the battle.