"I'm afraid I don't have a shred of confidence that you'll be able to." As usual, Jade chose to sway into a more disappointingly predictable presumption. If several of the prisoners had been stuck for weeks, then it was only common sense that two days worth of knowledge would hardly cut it. It was a remarkable feat for this Institute to contain so many people, both once extremely powerful and otherwise.

Of course, it provided him with an even greater nuisance, but he was willing to play along. For now, anyway.

With nothing much else to do other than wait, Jade chose to make a few copies of his map to keep at hand. He pressed the top of his pen until it clicked, and then proceeded to mimic the lines he’d drawn on his original.