Carter finally laid hands on the glue. He smoothed the tree out and, with an expression of intense concentration, began putting dabs of glue on the edges of the paper figure. Of course touching the glue wouldn't leave little white burns on his fingers the way his more harmful chemicals had, but it was habit to be careful. "Mh," he said with a slightly distracted tone. "We'd get the POWs coming in through a secret entrance and then they'd hide in the tunnels under the camp until we could give them papers and new clothes and send them back out again. The last place you'd look for escaped prisoners would be another prison camp, so it's why we had it set up that way."

It wasn't a completely accurate statement. The tunnels maneuver was just their most common ploy; they had many wacky schemes for rescuing Allied prisoners. Carter wished he could come up with a few of his own and be more useful around here. Why was a man from a unit that specialized in escaping so bad at doing it on his own?