So-called justice

Mahala's answered with silence. I could see she cringed like she was remembering being witness of dark, horrifying events.

“So, you are saying that the witch who lives inside the theatre is imprisoned there for abusing magic… or more accurately… for killing people?!” I needed to hear a straight answer.

“She has been here for centuries! The entrance is protected by very powerful spell, so that only a witch as powerful as the evil one could ever walk inside,” she explained.

“Centuries?!” I called suspiciously, “But the theatre building is less than a hundred years old!”

“She used to be locked in the crypt, which is now underneath the theatre building. When the treater was built she somehow broke the protective spell around it and almost broke free. Then eldest decided to create another barrier, around the whole theatre this time,” she claimed.

“I see… so she used to have a tiny prison. She got loose, and you considerably granted her a bigger one