To be honest it wasn't that much of a blind guess, A guard in the deepest part of the prison would likely know something, even if they are not privy to the whole detail. At least they must know something to respond accordingly. Like what to look out for and what to report, especially a banned weapon like a gun.
"Please call Father Theodore! The believer is in utter chaos, they didn't listen to us at all."
The guards look at each other again and nod. One of them still kept the sword pointing at Reeva while the other one went inside the iron bar doors. Reeva simply waits outside and he doesn't have to wait long before he hears a commotion.
Theodore came at him fast, he walked almost like he was running. His pace quickens with every step, his face pale like he has seen a ghost.
"Where are the guns!?"
The bald man shouts like his life depends on it. He walks up and stares at Reeva like he is some bully demanding lunch money. Reeva acted like he was shocked and took a step back However Theodore still managed to make Reeva startle anyway. The bald priest quickly grabs Reeva's shoulder and shakes his head off.
"Father I don't know what you're talking about!"
Reeva tried to stay calm but the bald priest didn't let him. He acted like he didn't know what the gun was.
"You idiot!, didn't I say to activate code red when one of these things is discovered out of the expected area!!! You incompetent fool!"
Reeva couldn't form a sentence from how aggressive Theodore was shaking his shoulder. Luckily he was stopped by Plutus.
"Stop it, Father the priest simply didn't mean it"
A vein popped from Theodore's square face, he simply looked like he was about to kill someone. however, he was able to pull it back after Plutus's word.
"You're right, I shouldn't be mad at incompetent fools, where is the gun?"
"The heretic attack in front of the church, the other priest is checking the situation out."
Reeva replied with a shaky voice. He didn't need to act fearful because he actually was. Theodore is much more aggressive than the priest in Lememore. He didn't expect the middle-aged man to shake an answer out of him.
"Shit!"
Theodore curses one last time before he runs upstairs. The Plutus follow right behind Theodore. Reeva also pretends to follow right behind them but he's right at the back, the moment that the group runs upward, he begins to slowly disappear from behind them.
After a moment he couldn't see them, he halted his movement and checked the running sound. The fade further upstairs. Revaa then turns back. Then he arrives back at the bar gate. The two knights still haven't moved from their position.
Their job is to not keep watch of this place, even if the Bishop demands them leave.
"Why are you still here"
"Um... Father said he needed me to guard this place"
The knight sneers at Reeva's answer. From their perspective, Reeva looks like he doesn't want to face the heretic, too scared to fight them so he chooses to hide down here. However, the guard didn't get hired to judge how the church acted, so he chose to stay quiet and let them pass. The priest most likely begs Theodore to be here anyway.
"Go on."
Reeva reveals a smile and goes past the bare gate, there he is really down in the prison. The cold tone wall feels far more hostile and isolating than the one above. The candle lights the hallway filled with men holding cells.
Curiously, He looks into one of them. Behind the steel bar was a man who looked to be in his thirties. His face is pale and his body has no muscle. He doesn't even have the energy to beg for anything.
This isn't just the only one either, there are many with similar conditions from different ages and classes. The people who end up here have one unifying feature. They were branded as heretics by the church. Thus giving the church free reign to do anything to them.
Reeva looks at the lifelessness in their eyes with pity. He wouldn't put it past Theodore to punish those who piss him off judging from how the Priest acts. Some of them just look like an old man while some look quite young.
He wants to help
This sight just looks pitiful. It would have made him happy if he helped them but, doing so is just suicide. They wouldn't get far from here and most of them would just be burned to death to make an example for people to see.
If he wants to help, he needs a much more viable plan.
And saving everyone isn't gonna cut it either, maybe some of them committed such hideous crimes that they deserve to end up here. He couldn't judge people just by how pitiful they were when they didn't eat food for 3 weeks.
Reeva shakes the feeling off, he walks past many of such prisons. Some of them even have the energy left to beg for forgiveness when Reeva walks by. However, when he was walking by one of the cells, someone spoke to him.
"Hey you, you're not one of them right?"
Revaa turns his attention to the sound. It came from within a dark cell, the candlelight in the room burned long ago. He couldn't only see a vague silhouette of a man. He was malnourished like the other but his condition was not as bad.
"Shut up, heretic!"
Reeva plays the role of a priest getting offended by such a remark.
"Stop the act, you might be fooling people with your word but you can't fool me with your eyes. If every priest had a little bit of that pitty in your eyes we wouldn't have here. I wouldn't have been here."
The man hore voice couldn't hide his deep sadness.
"Then could you help me out?" Reeva asked, wasn't pretending to be a priest anymore "Did any guy with a grey robe pass by earlier?"
"Ahaha" The prisoner gave a cheerful laugh "That guy got even worse treatment than mine, he's properly suffering in the sunfire chamber. Burning alive while not getting any closer to death."