You hem your way into the shadow of the Gatehouse, and you are still hawing as you step under the portcullis. Only once you see the flat blackness awaiting you through the gate do you stop your fretting. If it is this dark, then it can only mean that the twin of this gate, the one that leads out onto the Mount, must be shut up. So it seems that escape is not to be as simple as just ... running away. You are going to need to find where to run to first - which you are not like to get the opportunity to do so. The Guard mumbles something that might have been a lament for forgetting a lantern, though it is hard to tell over the noise of his harness. Having taken a few steps inside, you can now make out some wisps of light, which the Guard is walking towards. You know that there are stairs and even rooms along the walls in this space between the gates, clearly, this where the Watch-Serjant is holed up.

Struck with a sense of foreboding - and just how vulnerable you are down here - you immediately settle for naming the Blue Boy. Anything more sure to get you out of this mess is worth it, so long as you don't actually get escorted all the way to that House. And to tell it true, it might just be worth it even if you are escorted all the way. That said, it is dark enough in here that it might not come to that. If you were to slip away from the Guard in this darkness, then manage to stay out of sight long enough to find a side-door, or a sally port or whatever, then win your way through it. Of course, there is no guarantee that the door wouldn't be locked - or worse, barred from the other side.

> Please choose ONE of the following:
> Attempt to slip away right here, before you are shown to the Watch-Serjant [Requires Rolling]
> Continue on for now, waiting for a better opportunity to arise