They are waiting for her. As Gabriella during her via crucis was like a lamb lead to the slaughtherhouse, the execution squad waiting for her at the top of the low hill is like a pack of wolves pouncing on their prey. Smelling blood and flesh.
They are not Roman soldiers. They are from her people, hired from the Romans to inflict her the final torture. When Gabriella sees them and understands what has happened, her mind blurred by the pain in her back and head, broken by the long path she had to walk, the realization of the treason is like a spear stabbing directly in her heart.
But they do not care. They grasp her patibulum and roughtly pull her to the ground, the hard beam scraping on her back covered with the terrible wounds caused by the scourge. Gabriella moans out loud at this renewed torture, arching her back, being unable to refrein a terrible cry of pain to escape from her lips..."aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh", her cry long and heart-felt, coming directly from the deep of her wounded soul.
She does not offer resistance as she descends to the dusty ground, offering herself to the torture, hoping that this will save her people. But she cannot avoid wailing from pain as the thorns of her crown stick even deeper in her tender scalp as she is laid down, her head on the ground..."aaaaaHHH AAAAHHH AAAHHHH!"
She can look at the sky now, while, around her, her torturers starts preparing cruel arrangments for her body, getting ready to torment her. She
cannot be sure, but she think she has seen somebody taking out from a bag few rusty spike. And the realization hits her like a hammer: they are going to crucify her, and she will die up there, on the tree of shame, for the amusement and arousing of her enemies. She wails again, from desperation this time, this is not what she thought when she gave herself up to the Romans. But she has to undergo it, her people is most important.
With the corner of her left eye, she sees a dark figure approaching, looming of her. Her gruesome ordeal is going to start.