The Span

The Span

Built in the shadow of the @Regent’s Estate, @The Span is a slab of grim utility—stone walls bare of ornament, gates built for endurance rather than intimidation. Its high walls keep prisoners in more than enemies out, and @The Cudgel treats its operation as another shift to be endured. Guards cycle in from @The Hilt or @The Barrows, sometimes as promotion, sometimes as penance, depending on who in the guild hall they last angered.
Within, cells are divided not by crime but by convenience—petty thieves beside political enemies, debtors across from failed delvers. The unlucky are shipped to labor camps or tunnel delves from which return is not expected. And then there are the lower levels: wings collapsed or sealed, where older stone and older things wait in the dark. Maintenance crews are sent on a schedule… but the head count is not always the same when they return. In the Span, silence is a form of survival.