“Look, I know some of you wish you could go
back and undo what has been done but the fact is you can’t.
But you can begin to try and make up for all the lives you have
destroyed and the trouble you’ve caused. This isn’t
bad, you’ll just be helping around where ever you’re
needed, for however long your contract states and once that time is
up, you’ll be free to live your lives the way you want to
live them, hopefully better than you live them now,” Xena
said and they looked at her then began to talk amongst themselves.
“What if we don’t want this? We could just leave right
now,” two of the men hollered, “no, you wouldn’t
be able to just leave, I would make sure of that as would King
Garius’ soldiers,” Xena said. “And you can not
choose this but you’re other option will probably be spending
the rest of your lives in jail.”

 

 

She said and they all talked amongst themselves
about it, “make your decisions now,” she said and she
watched as they looked around each other. Dudley walked up to Xena
and looked into her eyes, “I’m not too proud of the man
I’ve become but if you were in my place, would you choose
this option?” He asked and Xena nodded, “yes I would,
the fact that Garius is doing this, says a lot about the man he is.
He didn’t have to take my suggestion, he could have just
locked you all up but he has chosen to help you rather than get rid
of you.” She said and Dudley looked at her, looked at Garius
then looked down as he warred with himself on what choice to
make.

 

 

In the end he pulled his sword and walked over to
King Garius and looked into his eyes as he dropped his sword in
front of his feet in surrender. “You’ve made the right
choice,” Garius said and Dudley continued to look into his
eyes as guards came and placed shackles on his wrists before they
lead him away. Once Dudley had surrendered, the others began to
follow suit and Xena nodded to Garius before she got on Argo,
“oh and if you haven’t gotten the message by now, there
are some of Egan’s men in Acerson locked up in the
jail,” Xena said and with that she left the Kingdom. Once she
was outside of the kingdom, she headed back towards the cave, but
she wouldn’t make it by night fall so when the sun began
setting, she found a suitable place to camp.