The Dungeon

Your faery guide brings you down some long slippery steps. At the bottom you enter an area where there are cells to your left and right. "There are very few who oppose the laws of the land," says your faery guide, "But those who do oppose are sent here to serve out their sentences."

"We didn't do nothe'n." Said a cellmate. "He took money from very poor and blind people." Says the guide.

"I'm getting out in 3 days." Says another cellmate, "In for be'in drunk last night."

In a cell in the back of the hallway you see a man there all alone. When you ask what he is in for your guide says, "He is in for killing a person in defense, for his own life was threatened. He has to serve a sentence. He will be out in a few months." When you ask how long he had been there, there was a bang behind you and you turn. There in the doorway stood a soldier. "I am here to take over from the soldier before me." Said the soldier, "Where he be?"

You look around. You say you didn't see any soldier when you came down. Your guide explains his presence. "Maid Rosa sent you? Alright but hurry up." Says the soldier.

You wish luck to those in captivity, and hope they serve their sentences well.
As you walk up the steps the door flies open. Two soldiers are struggling with a man being held between them. "We caught him." Says one of the solders. The other soldier quickly runs and opens a cell, while you are walking back down the steps. You ask what he did, while the soldiers put him into the cell and lock him up. "He threatened the life of Maid Rosa." Said one of the soldiers. "He escaped and tried to get out of the land to form an army against her." You look at the man. Worn clothes and weathered face. He looked like he worked all his life. "Maid Rosa pays all she can to the people who labor. She dosen't have anything special. Every year she goes down the streets and gives those in great need money and food. She houses many in the castle. She dosn't celebrate anything without her people. Would you be against her if she did all this?" asked the soldier. "But she has all that money in the treasury room." says the escaped prisoneer. "And none of it is hers." Says the soldier. "That is the wages of those who are going into retirement. She cannot make the old ones starve, so young people don't work. You know she earns her money like everyone else."

"Time for us to leave." says your guide. You can tell the little faery is uneasy down here so you go up the stairs and out the door. You close the door behind you.

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