I couldn’t see which twin, but I thought it was Orange who answered. “That’s the mingling area. They take fifty prisoners at a time – any more and they don’t have enough guards to control them. This happens twice a week, for a few hours per group.”

Only twice a week. These prisoners must be literally insane.

“How is it that you know so much about the inner workings of the prisons?” These bitches were so suspect. I wished Dad or the quads were here. I was going to need someone in my corner. I was outnumbered and lacking vital information.

“We’re old, we have been moving through the supernatural world for a long time. And Krakov is a prison which is important to us.” Orange again, and surprisingly forthcoming with information.  Usually when the crazy ones are loose lipped it’s because they are about to kill you. But surely the twins knew they couldn’t kill me. They were marked also, and had the same lack of vulnerabilities.

But maybe they knew what our weaknesses were. I wasn’t surprised that the Four didn’t know, no one was going to broadcast it to them, but I sort of thought the twins might have the knowledge.

The cold was starting to bother me. It was icy enough to take my breath away and freeze my eyeballs. Moisture gathered on my lashes, and my lips felt dry and chapped. I was dreaming of food, a warm bed, and a naked Braxton. Maybe I could eat my food off a naked Braxton while in bed. Yes … yes, that was a great plan.

I knew when we neared the lower levels of the prison. The energy grew strong, the securities pressing. The elements woven into the bars of the prisoner’s cells were visible, and on instinct I shied closer to the stone side. For the first time in ages my eyes alighted on the prisoners. I blinked a few times. Unlike the sad souls up higher, all of the ones down here were sitting perfectly still, making no noise, and all staring straight at their bars as if they could see through the magic one-way-glass. The only reassurance was that their eyes didn’t follow me, but still it felt eerily like they could see what was happening.