Karch could not believe what he was hearing. "He escaped? It is a basement with one exit, and we had that blocked. How could he possibly have escaped?"

The sergeant of the Merchant Tower guards cleared his throat. "It appears that he somehow discovered a room which had previously been used as a bathroom. He escaped into the sewers."

"Well did you follow him?" Karch knew the answer from the look on the Sergeant's face. "No, don't answer that. I don't want to know. It will only make me want to imprison more people. Even if you did, you clearly didn't find him." Karch stood up from his desk and started to pace.

"We have guards at all of the known sewer exits north of the Fork."

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Karch stopped walking and turned around, "All of them?"

The Sergeant fidgeted in his chair, which he tried to turn to face Karch. "Well, no sir. There are hundreds of them. But the major public ones are under guard."

Not believing what he was hearing, Karch shook his head. "Look, you fool. He is lost to us now. We need to assume that he is going to flee to safety, most likely into the Wretched Quarter, but we can't discount him trying to cross Traders Bridge into the Upper Triangle. I'll have Saxe post knights at the Great Bridge and Traders Bridge, but you need to have all your men searching the city. As long as the bridges are secure, he is trapped in the city." Karch strode over to the sergeant and leaned into his face. "I do not want him to escape."

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