" So, Lord Silver, to summarize: Kai is somewhere here, in a prison that can be reached only from this city, but you don’t know where the entrance is, or how to get in, or what the conditions inside may be—except in terms that a pseudo-Gothic melodramatic author would consider overblown. And you are, I presume, unwilling to be of any further assistance, in case it is traced back to you. Though if I am caught, we both know Lord and Lady Guantes will assume that you were to blame anyhow.” “Accurate on the whole,” Silver agreed. “Except for that comment on my prose style. "

― Genevieve Cogman , The Masked City (The Invisible Library, #2)