CHAPTER 25
Penrys recharged the light devices again while Gen Jongto sketched out his plan for getting out of Juhim Tep.
“These storm drain tunnels we’re in were created when the city above us was built. Only a handful of grates can be opened, and those are locked, so people think of them as water drainage and nothing else. They don’t connect to the buildings, as far as most people know. It’s the other tunnels that have most of the rumors.”
“Smugglers, spies, secret assignations, assassination plots.” Char Dazu ticked off a list. Penrys smiled at the relish in his voice. Sounds like there are popular stories on the topic.
“There’s some truth to all that,” Gen Jongto admitted. “The other tunnels are independent of the ones we’re in. Each is its own system, with its own exits, made for i
