The guard collecting clothes looked up: "Huh? Going home."
Colonel Jack: "What?"
"Going home! Enough redwood!"
The guard muttered something in Anglo-Saxon.
At that moment, the leader of the Ante prisoners spoke in broken Anglo-Saxon: "They say our troops have arrived, but I don't know how progress happened so fast."
Just then, a gunshot echoed from the castle tower.
The prisoners immediately hit the ground.
But they didn't hear an alarm, a warning burst of machine gun fire, or the barking of hunting dogs.
Colonel Jack got up, looked around, and noticed that the Prosen soldier collecting clothes had disappeared.
Everyone exchanged glances and then ran together toward the tower.
Normally there would be several locks to enter the tower; prisoners couldn't access it under usual circumstances. But now, they moved freely all the way to the Prison Warden's office.
What they saw was the Prison Warden lying backward, holding a handgun.
