A Mute Assassin

"Are you, are you, coming to the tree..."
A beautiful voice filled with sorrow, pain, and hatred sang out.
"They strung up a man, they say who murdered three..."
Mangled bodies of dead men were strung about the forest floor.
"Strange things did happen here no stranger would it be..."
In the area covered with the most bodies, two figures were in the center of it all.
"If we met at midnight in the hanging tree..."
A young male, not yet in his twenties, was on his knees holding a frail figure of a child, singing...