Chapter 437. The Interrogation

JACOB

“State your name,” I ordered the first prisoner of those I captured.

In reality, I couldn’t really say I captured him, because this man had willingly offered to come here. This was a prison far from the castle and also from the city itself. It was a suitable place for prisoners who might have that disease they called the plague. I had to protect all the citizens and isolate these people before an epidemic spread. Hunting these guys down hadn’t been a titanic task, but I smelled that things weren’t going to go well at all.

The soldiers had thick cloth protections so that their skin would not be in contact with the prisoners, in case the disease was contagious. I couldn’t know how it got to Karl. I had to cover all the options.

The city of Fabricio was already suffering enough to add more problems to the people of this place. I would protect them, it was my duty as king.

“Horace,” he replied, looking at the ground, on the verge of tears. “Horace the