The Lycan King's Defiant Surrogate
Instead, I turn to leave and start my trek back towards the stairwell.
Halfway there, a hand stops me, outstretched from behind one of the cells. There’s a piece of paper clutched in his fist.
“Take it,” the prisoner says.
“No thank you,” I tell him, intending to step around.
“It’s about the rebellion,” the prisoner adds.
That gets me to still and look back.
The cell is too dark for me to make out much of the prisoner’s face, though he’s wearing the clothing of a guard. Likely this is one of the ones that betrayed Caleb, now suffering the price.