First up did these guys forget taking skills ends up killing them anyway? So take it like men and refuse. Your just murdering people for the sake of what exactly? To extend your life possibly by months at best? Also if healer girl dies or gets mangled I'll have no sympathy, they keep having the students go back to the empire by their own choice even though they have muliple times had evidence they don't give 2 flying fecks about them.
Also another point of just kill the bad eggs, stop letting them go cause they always just keep doing wrong. It's so frustrating to read when your like "All this would have been avoided if they had just killed the murderers the first time".