Celeste's POV

The prison lay underground, dark and damp, suffocating, completely soundproof and sealed off from the outside world.

Sometimes the warriors were too lazy to go down the spiral staircase to deliver food to the prisoners, but they were always eager to punish them with the whip.

We threw the four men who released the tiger into the forest Benedict would cross into that prison. Their faces were almost unrecognizable—punishment for refusing to reveal who hired them to carry out ...