Elijah backed away from the door and began to pace. "Why don't you listen?! I can't! I can't ! If constables could just let people out, it would be madness. And I'm going to try to free you. But this has nothing to do with the article. It's..." he wanted to shout it was untrue but every time be lied it felt like something wrong. He felt wrong.

"It doesn't matter, everyone seems to be talking about it. What's one more.." he frowned painfully and rubbed at his teary face. "I should...go to the Meijer farm to..ask about you. " Uriel would not believe such rumors, right? Or would his wife just deny him entry? No. He couldn't believe people would be that bad. Not over a random trashy article by an unknown woman .