He told them to take him at his word. These folk who believed the man was the King's son and took him at his word watched in pain as their hope of Royalty was slaughtered. His followers were amazed and delighted. He told them that by taking him at his word they had transferred their genetic disease to him, and that when he died, the disease died with him. He could not stay dead, though, because he was Truly Royal.
Death has no hold on the Truly Royal.
He told them that those who take him at his word are the real descendants of the first peasant, and that they were not to do the things that had been done during the great corruption. They were to act Royal. They were to take him at his word. They asked if they should still make rings for their children and he told them that would not do, for the sign of the First promise had been misused in the corruption of the Second. He also told them to no longer bleed goats, since the thing it was supposed to hint at had been done and they all saw it as well.