“None of us knew it at the time, but Dougan Mackenzie was the only one among us who knew how to read the signs or the guards’ registers. We all would have marched to our deaths had he not plucked my two best mates, Argent and Tallow, into the railway worker line. To this day, I don’t know what made him do it, but at the last moment he grabbed me, too, without a guard noticing, and very likely saved my life.”
