“What is this place?”He asked back as he got up trying to get himself together.
The prison was in an old cistern and had access to the main city sewer. The lower cell was used for execution and corpses of the people who were executed were thrown into the sewer. Intimates received no food and often died of starvation. These prisons were totally dark holes, cool and damp, unlighted and unwarm. There was also no proper arrangement for sanitation and no means of a facility for human residence. Imprisonment was the easiest kind of penalty known; which include various kinds of bodily punishments such as branding, hanging, mutilation and death.
"A dead body, specifically a human corpus has a rank and plunger smell mixed with a tinge of sickening sweetness. Imagine a rotting piece of meat with a couple of drops of cheap perfume and you're halfway to understanding what a human corpse smells like."
“Isn’t it beautiful?” Eric walked to the front and replied.