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Faith’s hands stilled and she pressed her steepled index fingers to her lips "Why don’t you just ask Tama for their names?"

"She would want to knohy I was interested And it’s uards Then ere just weeding out the inexperienced and those of questionable repute The unit has been with these prisoners for over a season What if we discover a real problened moles in the prison just in case her plans failed You know Tama requests daily updates, and I can’t lie to her She would be terrified by the notion I’d rather wait and tell her good news once we assess the situation" I held ree we shouldn’t tell the Councilor At least not yet" Faith opened a drawer in her desk, pulling out a sheet of paper "I’ll send a request to Wirral’s warden"

Uh-oh I hoped to keep the number of people involved to two "Don’t you have that infore of all Wirral’s personnel"

"Is his office in the Hall?"

"No It’s at the prison where he spends s with the Councilor and other clan business" She dipped her quill into ink and wrote the request

After she folded the paper and sealed it ax, I jue"

She hesitated

"I want toBesides, I think it’ll be helpful if I take a look around"

As soon as I entered, the solid mass of the prison’s stone walls bore down on ht to draw a breath I clutched Faith’s request in ainst my chest as if it were a shield

With each step, I sank deeper into the bowels of Wirral My escort held a torch, illuers delivered their coate, but I had insisted on handing the missive to the warden himself

After an intense debate, an order to disarh search of retted my insistence as soon as the first set of steel doors sla reverberated off the stone walls, and ates followed until I lost all track of time or location

Rank and putrid smells emanated fro cries pierced the air We didn’t pass any cells Thank fate I had no wish to view the conditions nor the poor souls trapped in here

Eventually, the officer led me up a spiral staircase so narrow my shoulders brushed both walls The acrid odors disappeared and the oily blackness lightened Dizzy with relief and the fast pace, I paused for ain the crisp breeze, I looked down on an exercise yard Completely surrounded by the prison, the packed dirt of the square at least allowed the prisoners sorowled at me to hurry, and I rushed to catch up The top of the staircase ended at another steel door After a series of co open, revealing two officers wedged in a small vestibule Another round of explanations followed another pat down

Yep This had been a bad idea One of my worst