He remembered his first days at the prison. Halden was once for him just an urban legend made to threaten the criminals who weren't stopped by the city guards, because those incompetents didn't do their job in the right manner.
It was so frustrating for him to have all his dreams shattered by slight mistakes… Every day inside that prison was to remember him that he messed up. He failed in the mission that he swore to devote his life, the beautiful pursue of the Frelsis, which they called freedom.
That was a word that for a long time the Council of Jarls and even the General Court were deciding if they should banish or not. They were all cowards in the eyes of that prisoner. People who know that words had a lot of power, but weren't willing to bear this pressure.
Yes, that was a District of cowards. The Court was filled with wimps who couldn't live with the sight of an entire folk turning against them, so they handcuffed them, and imposed their sovereignty.