Jora disliked holding rooms with only one exit.
The old central command had used the lower guard house because it was close to the machinery and easy to watch. It was less suitable now that the morning haze sometimes settled against its back wall. On day1678, the local ward proposed moving the prisoners to an upper building.
Jora went to look before moving a person.
The upper building had two doors, a dry floor, sound walls, and a yard where an ordinary escort could turn without backing anyone toward a drop. Its windows opened above the courtyard rather than the public street. The water line was separate from the disputed industrial return.
It also had a stove pipe that passed too close to a shelf of old records.
She pointed.
“That moves first.”
The ward keeper sent for the carpenter.
