Chapter 86: Prisoner
Their prisoner, or guest as Sylara started calling him, woke up two days before the festival, and was surprisingly calm about his predicament.
"He wants to speak with the person who knocked him out." Sylara informed Calen and his companions. "He was surprisingly polite about it."
"Wouldn’t that be you though? The powder was what knocked him out, I just scattered it." Calen pointed out.
"Well, I already talked with him, so it’s your turn - maybe he’ll tell you something useful."
"Fine, where’s he?"
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On Sylara’s command, Alison led him to a large building behind the Verdant Watch’s headquarters.
"This is the city prison." She informed him. "It’s way bigger than we actually need, so we had no problem putting our new prisoner in a secluded part of the structure."
"Do you often get prison sentences?" He asked as they matched through the rows of mostly empty cells.
"No - in fact only the worst crimes result in long detention, manpower is far too precious to just lock people up."
"What other punishments do you use then?"
"The lighter crimes almost always result in community service, there’s plenty of work nobody wants to do and criminals are perfect for that. The punishments for crimes with medium severity are decided on case-by-case basis - if the offender has a very important profession, then they usually end up working for the city without any compensation."