The City of Immortals' dungeons had never been so crowded. To fulfill the order to detain humans and Skrulls separately, the Sisterhood convent's dungeons had also been cleared out to hold some of the Skrulls. Compared to those unlucky souls, Nick Fury received far better treatment. At the very least, his meals were not salted gruel, and he had a private bathroom. Stephanie was unwilling to spend too much of the budget on prisoners. To meet Salomon's nearly endless demands of war, she had to save money wherever it was unnecessary. Thus, cells originally meant for two people were crammed with five, and she had thrown in handmade blankets from the inventory, bought from Eastern European women who had been unable to join the Sisterhood.
Salomon allowed those women to earn money through labor, and his purchase price was several times the market rate. The money would be given to them if they chose to return to secular society, allowing them to survive in the outside world—this was what Stephanie found most difficult to understand. In her view, those women ought to devote themselves wholeheartedly to working for the City of Immortals, because her sovereign had given them life, freedom, dignity, and even the chance to receive higher education. Yet Salomon was unwilling to explain much, saying only that no one's value should be underestimated. Surprisingly, apart from a few women who wished to return to secular society and continue their lives, most of the rescued Eastern European women wanted to stay in the City of Immortals and work.
The sovereign of the City of Immortals had also found this hard to believe when he learned of it, but he then instructed Stephanie to select talented women from among them to fill positions in the Internal Affairs Department, expanding the