Swamped

You consider revealing yourself and giving the password, but that's risky. You don't think every patroller is in on Ash's schemes, after all. And while you have little doubt the machines themselves are in the custody of knights he's picked out himself, watching the holes is something that anybody could do.

So you might just wind up confusing them, getting yourself disciplined anyways, and worst of all, if they take you to Ash for being in a suspicious place, they might mention the codephrase and tip him off.

All in all, not worth the risk.

On the other hand... well, now that you think about it, you do want to find Ash. And he's probably wondering where you disappeared to when Lisa caused that ruckus.

You quickly whisper your idea to Grey. He doesn't seem happy, but he signals you to go forward.

You step out and wave to the patrollers.

"Hello! I know I should be getting to sleep, but I ran into a little bit of trouble a while ago and I think Sergeant Ash is going to want to know about it. Could one of you take me to him?"

The guards look at each other.

"You could tell us and we can pass it on. We're pretty busy right now."

"It's a bit of a complicated message. I think it'd be best if I spoke to him myself. You can at least tell me where he is, right?"

"Um, actually, we don't know. He said he was going to have a talk with Sergeant Roxley, I think, but didn't mention where they were going to meet."

Damn. That's inconvenient.

Now what?