Chuuya snorts. "They should be glad the castle remained at all," he says. It would have deserved being entirely destroyed and everyone in it. "Governments always want to control that kind of power, one way or another."

"The man responsible. Like it's all the work of one man to do that. Like the people he reported to didn't know about and approve, at least tacitly, of what he was doing. One man. That's a sacrificial lamb to ward off further vengeance."

If they had any way to continue the work, who knows what happens in secret. If they didn't, well, that's why they could afford to sacrifice the man. He brings them closer to the ground, parallel to the train tracks. They may as well reach a train station. He doesn't know where he's going.