Cahl nodded several times to demonstrate that he fully understood the meta-bear's situation.
“However, you don’t have this sword with you and yet you were trying to escape the estate... why?”
Rahen's fingers twitched briefly on his knees, then his eyes filled with strange darkness. When he decided to speak, the deep inflexion in his voice had a shuddering note of horror:
“It had been four days since I had enough to eat or drink properly. I was getting weaker. Very early this morning, the militia present was out of control. They were running all over the place, screaming in Russian, and finally leaving. Truckloads of fleeing men. The few that remained belonged to Swan. When we began to understand the reason, the tension started to rise badly in the barracks. Everyone wanted to get out of
