Abasi ignored her saying that she didn't understand - of course she'd say that, it was a part of the trick. Not that he could consistently work out in his head just what the trick was, but he knew there was one. It was on a huge scale and being played on only him as some kind of divine punishment, that much he knew.
Unsurprisingly, she pinned him down and he struggled, but could not lift his wrist away. "Jail?! I am the son of a High Priest, you idiot! Let me go right now! You put the sick in jail?!" What kind of a place was this?
ABASI
it's sad to know that we are not alone
it's sad to know there's no honest way out