Chapter 134: Opportunity part 3
Kim wasn't sure what to make of what appeared to be soldiers entering the inn. She suspected something was going on but she didn't have a clue as to what it might have been.
She looked around for Jonas, and found him at a large table that had been created by moving a few of the tables together. However, she could tell he wasn't surprised by the armed men entering the inn, though he certainly acted like it. Just not enough for Kim to think he actually was surprised.
"May we help you?" Jonas asked, his false innocence giving Kim a headache for some reason.
"These men escaped the jail they were being held in earlier this morning. We've come to take them back," the man who seemed to be in charge answered.
"Really?" Jonas asked. "They've been here all night. You can even ask the innkeeper."
"We're not going to ask anyone who can be bribed to say anything," the man spat. "They're coming with us and nothing you say can change that." The man suddenly paused as he smiled evily. "Unless you'd like to come with them."
Jonas shook his head as he sighed, looking defeated. Though, as the soldiers, started to get the young men to stand up, and put manacles on them, attaching a chain to the manacles, Jonas spoke again, not showing any hint of the defeated posture he'd taken. The men who had been at the tables looked uncertain. Like they had been through this before, but were uneasy about it happening again.
"By the way, what evidence do you have that these find young men are the ones who broke out of that jail?" he asked, looking towards the ground, as if he was afraid to look at the soldiers.
Or maybe they're part of the city watch, Kim speculated in her mind, watching the events play out.
"We have eyewitness descriptions of them that match these trouble makers, and there's the wounds that we bandaged on them," the one in charge replied smugly, as if everything had been already established.
"Uh, bandages?" Jonas asked, looking confused as he lifted his head and started examining the new 'friends' he'd made who were being taken away.