There are 8 beings; all killed by each other: The king. The butcher. The knight. The blacksmith. The assassin. The sailor. The bird. The thief. The riddle goes as follows: A fowl befell the kingly head that foiled a deadly plot. Instead with dagger forged by Ned, Sir Michael was for naught. The Jack-Tar Joan, had caught the thief and sent that rogue to hell. With blood and feathers on his boots and stolen broach as well. The knight killed one, for heinous acts, whose shoes were caked in mud. The sickly sparrow breathes its last, in pools of swinish blood. The royal chef paid a golden broach, for pork that soon was burned. Into the woods went ned and Joan and only Ned returned. Put the deaths in order. Who kills who, and in what order?