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You head along the wall to the north. The sounds of barking dogs give you pause, but they die out, leaving only the steady stream of pouring rain to fill the night. Further ahead, the wall ends at a gated road, with a large chain link fence closed with two metal bars latched across them. Past the gate on the other side is a guard station, an enclosed box where an older black man sits to stay out of the rain. He reads by candle light. Two German Shepherds sit nearby, chained to a post in the ground under a large open tent.

As you move closer, the dogs rise and their ears poke up. You recede further into the tree line to avoid further detection. You follow from the cover of the forest until the wall wraps at the northern end to the west.

You walk another hundred feet until you come to a large patch of dirt that has collected near a low point of the wall and made it much easier to climb over. The rain must have caused a mudslide from a nearby hill. You climb the dirt pile and land on the northern side of the camp. You see a mid-sized, one-story trailer, which is sitting on numerous cement blocks to raise it off the ground. A puddle of water has pooled beneath the trailer. Lights shine through window blinds, and you move closer to investigate.

Though the trailer is raised, you easily climb up the makeshift ladder made from the cement blocks and peer in through an uncovered area of the window. Inside is a middle-aged white man at a desk. His short crew cut and clean-shaven face give a professional appearance, and his sharp, angled eyes and bushy eyebrows are not hidden behind thick, wiry glasses. His lips are clenched and his features are all pulled together, which show he is in quiet deliberation over a problem. Or he's seriously constipated. The room is spacious and has all the components of an office, with large blueprints and maps hanging from the wall and large volumes of dusty books inside. If the camp needed an accountant, this would be the man. As you scan the room, your eyes catch sight of a key ring on the wall near the door leading into the trailer.

He rolls into a side room and closes a narrow door behind him.