These days, it's not unusual for desperate commoners to rebel against their Lord when they can't survive. Any excuse will do, not to mention that the townspeople had already been slaughtered once.
When the Knights arrived, they found it was merely a bandit problem. The Prophet himself had already been captured by the old master, so the matter was dropped.
But there were certain things Lance could never truly say out loud, so he had to turn his verbal assault on the captain.
"You truly are brainless. If she were really the heir, would she have allowed you to attack the town? You could have been heroes simply by wiping out the bandits. Even as deserters, you would have been accepted by everyone if you had protected the town. Instead, you wasted the opportunity, helped the bandits slaughter the townspeople, and pushed your soldiers into a deadly alliance with them."
Lance berated the captain harshly. Just as the captain started to react, Lance's words shut him down again.
