Chapter 27 Joshua hesitated outside the interrogation room and watched Meyrick through the one-way glass for a few moments. He was handcuffed to the table inside. The room looked brand new. This must have been one of the few times the Academy had had a prisoner worth working over. Sarah paused with her hand on the door. She saw the reluctance written on Joshua’s face. ‘Don’t worry,’ she said. ‘We’ll get him to sing. Just do the opposite of what I do.’ ‘The thought had never crossed my mind,’ he said, thinking of Sarah’s blood-rage back in the Colonnade. ‘I won’t kill him,’ Sarah stressed. ‘But give me two minutes alone with him first.’ Joshua nodded, hardly taking his eyes off the monster in the next room. Had Meyrick been the one to take Lucia all those years ago? It seemed unlikely. Perhaps on his orders, but not by his own hand. Yet it was Meyrick’s office that had led straight down to the hidden cavern, where they’d discovered the secret armament of war drudges.
