In the middle of the night, the vice captain wakes up. He's found a rock, and the king has decided that he's going to be executed the next day. The vice captain tells the king that he doesn't need to worry about him anymore, because he'll be buried in the same spot as he is. He also tells the captain that they're no more than "mere passersby" , and that he hopes they'll remember each other someday. In other words, he wants to make sure that they both remember him, even if they don't know each other at the time. He says that the punishment for him will be "burning at