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If they're actually keeping them in prison, we have time.

I just want to find out the truth. Maybe living is worse than their death sentence we saw.

It's possible. I wonder if they would have executed all of them that way, or if she was just special as the ringleader.

It feels like an attempt to appease those that voted for execution for all, but maybe they've done worse to them.

I could accept that but I need to see it to believe it.

Nocwich is full of vampires and werewolves. From what I've heard from other people's tales, at least one of those groups eats people. Maybe they'll eat them.

I like that answer. Wish I thought it was the truth.

It's true, if they ate people someone would probably know. They'd have a reputation. Thorne seemed to be the only ruthless place, which isn't a surprise. I know most of the people there.

[ AKA he's slept with a good handful of them. ]

I feel almost offended then if that's where the ruthless go.

[ Not that he wouldn't have fought tooth and nail to get to where Jesper and Inej were but still. ]

They need to have a certain kind of ruthlessness to be trapped all the time in a gilded cage. But you would have hated it. We would've immediately gotten in trouble trying to get you from Thorne.

I can't deny that. I don't do well caged.

So we'll get in trouble here then. Especially dealing with those that would cage us. Even if underground is less cage than dungeon.

It was serendipity that I came when I did because they let Inej cross over from Solvunn here. It was the only time they've allowed people to switch factions voluntarily.

[ The idea of them being separated all this time is agonizing for him. Luckily it didn't happen. ]

I don't know her idea of the Summoned Faction could ever work. They'd keep kidnapping people even if it did.

You're not wrong. Even if they don't stop her, it will only encourage them.

We just have to determine if that should be a deterrent or not.

I suppose it matters if they would find that an act of treason or not. Free Cities may be more likely to shrug about us, but I imagine Thorne would just throw their people in the dungeon again.

To make it work, we would have to negotiate with them and run this as a government.
We can't leave her to do this alone, which means forming the government with her.