What a fucking waste of a chapter. Flashbacks of shit we've all seen before. Just get to the part where he makes them march a death march, never stopping, never getting water, while they get picked off, one by one, by the monsters that his soldiers had protected these villagers from.
@Capt_Gigglepants
You've heard wrong. The overwhelming pain from being burned alive will cause your brain to go into shock. But when you're drowning, your lungs burn when they fill with water. Your entire body spasms violently in a desperate attempt to expel the water from your lungs. Every cell in your body is screaming for oxygen. You're conscious right until you die. The last thing you feel is your body tearing cells apart, salvaging oxygen wherever it can, in a last-ditch effort to stay alive just a single second longer.
That is, of course, if you're conscious when you went underwater. If you were unconscious, you'll wake up just in time to realize that you're dying.