Tucker and his Cellmates walked back and forth across the square, which was paved with rough gravel.
He envied the others playing a game like Andersay Ball, except they threw the ball into a basket. Tucker could barely remember the last time he had seen people play like that... It felt as distant as taking a walk in the sunshine.
The high walls kept out the cold wind, and the midday sun took the edge off the chill. Tucker kept doing as instructed: walking beneath the walls and not looking at the filming. It was incredible that The Mage Tower's Fall, which they had watched, was made like this.
Dozens of minutes later, when walking could no longer keep the cold at bay, a girl named Astolfo, who had been beside the Deputy Warden, ran over and told them to return to the Dungeon to rest. She was a lively girl, about the age Sissy would have been if she were still alive.
"Return to the Dungeon to rest." Tucker would once have found those words deeply absurd. More absurd still, they now made him feel as though he were going home.
He had the Deputy Warden to thank for all of it... Over the past few days, the Deputy Warden had questioned everyone in the Dungeon. Tucker had told him he had been imprisoned for killing the thug who sold his Younger Sister. The next day, the Deputy Warden said he had uncovered the truth and offered Tucker two choices: be released immediately, or work for him and go with him to Star-Moon Bay someday. There would be delicious food and fine houses there... Who knew? Tucker could not find his Younger Sister, and he no longer cared.
He was grateful to the Deputy Warden. He had been going