Ben’s Bit, part eleven – Aspects of Power

“Ben, I’ve got some good news and some bad news…” The Governor of Bakewell Gaol is enjoying himself, but there’s a deadly edge to the calm exterior manner.

We are sitting in the ‘interview room’. We being the redoubtable Dr Grey, looking smug; his sexy assistant, Miss Goodnight of the Heels – nee Golding, who is not looking at all happy; a man in his forties with prematurely white hair whose name I’ve yet to discover… and the boss of the meeting, the hitherto absent Governor, whom I’ve just met.

But there’s something wrong with the Governor… He’s very tall, at least as big as Yellow Eyes, who often misses these ‘operational’ meetings. He’s built like a soldier… or possibly a mercenary, were I to refine my description. He has massive shoulders, and eyes that look like they’ve been plucked from a golden…