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We followed Kokinos inside the fortress. The interior was as bleak as the exterior with rough stone floors and walls. Torches lit the narrow hall that ran from end-to-end. A door on our left led down a flight of narrow, winding stone steps to I assumed the sub-floor. On our right were the stairs the led up to the second floor.
Kokinos led us up the right-hand stairs and to a narrow hall that ran along the center again. On either side were open spaces interrupted only by thick wooden support beams. Cots lined the walls, and a few soldiers relaxed on them. At the coming of their captain, however, all the leapt to their feet and stood at attention.
"As you were," Kokinos ordered them as he led us past his men to the back wall.
A door stood at the back wall, and it was through th
