Medivh's question made a bigger fuss than his first question when he asked it. In the end, no one understood the purpose of his first question, but it was clearly telling Asil who does he think he should set free. Because freedom was so precious to those who were there, and because they thought that if the Asil chose themselves, maybe they could be free, the people in all the cells started screaming at the Asil to choose themselves.
Their screams did not last long, soon after Baran silenced all the slaves with a shout. Baran turned to Medivh spoke with a bewildered face upon silencing the slaves and spoke: "Young Master, you paid for slave Asil to take him. What does it mean to take someone else?"