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Cal knows the urgency as well as I do "Now," he says, and flattens hiainst the ith the rest of us

The key turns I feel the electricity jump in the switch and flood the door’sback into the wall to reveal a cavernous cell block In stark contrast to the white tile corridors, the cells are gray, cold, and dirty Water drips somewhere, and the air is sickly daloos or stairs connecting the sets Four ca, watch over all I shut the yellow, though the s sun Standing beneath it, on a single catwalk ray uniforms Both of them spin at the sound of approach

"What are you--?" the first says, taking a single step toward us He has Saht of Nanny, standing at Gareth’s shoulder "Captain Iral, sir" With a wave of his hand, the Sanetron officer raises flat sheets ofa new section of catwalk before our eyes It connects to his, allowing Gareth and Nanny to walk forward

"Fresh blood?" The other officer chuckles, nodding at Gareth with a sly grin "What legion are you out of?"

Nanny cuts in before Gareth can answer "Open the cells It’s tied confused glances "We just walked them yesterday, they’re not due for--"

"Orders are orders, and I haveit in open threat "Open the cells"

"So it’s true? The king’s back again?" Sa his head "No wonder everyone’s in an uproar back at couess, especially with hisaround"

"She’s a strange one, the queen," the other says, scratching his chin "Don’t knohat she does in the Well, don’t want to know either"

"The cells," Nanny repeats, her voice hard

"All right, sir," the first ether, facing the dozens of cells rising frouishing under the crush of Silent Stone Newblood prisoners, about to be let loose