Confusion flooded her features as the Knight-Commander began to remove a key from his key ring.  Lana had known this was a possibility when she chose to return to the tower.  It seemed as if the lives of mages were always forfeit, something to be used and bartered with by the Chantry whenever they decided to do so.  It didn't matter how the Chantry framed it...Mages were little more than prisoners or slaves.<br/><br/>Lana bowed her head, ready to accept the fate given to her, until she heard the clattering of a key falling to the ground.  When her eyes opened, it took her a moment to realize what had happened.  The Knight-Commander, for some reason completely unbeknownst to her, was offering her the freedom he claimed he could not give.  Lana swallowed and offered him a look of gratitude as he exited the room, leaving her alone with Ellion.  It was odd, years ago she would have thought she was now alone with an ally...but Lana could not be certain that Ellion was her friend now.  Whatever Greagoir and the Chantry had done to him, it had warped his perception of her.<br/><br/>"I told him I wanted to help, that I could lead them to where I found those scrolls and that he could create a new phylactery if he wished to..."  She said as she stepped toward the front of the cell.  She bent down and picked up the key, partially because she worried he may not leave it there for her to get if she waited too long.  "If he's willing to let me go, that likely means it's true what he said...his hands are tied and my offer of help doesn't matter.  They'll kill me for coming back, just as they were going to when I left..."<br/><br/>Her eyes lifted to meet Ellion's.  "That's why Isabella sacrificed herself.  Not because of some demonic conspiracy...because they were going to kill a young woman for simply kissing a Templar."  The words were bitter on her tongue but Lana reminded herself that he was a victim in this too.  "I have no doubt you suffered and paid for our supposed crime, but I would have paid with my life..."  She closed her eyes and sucked in a strong breath.  Lana put the key in the lock and opened the door to her cell.<br/><br/>"I have to see this through.  I did what I came here to do, I let the Chantry know about the threat...I need to leave before Korbin returns and his hand is forced."  Her feet carried her quickly toward the great door that led to the Deep Roads.  Lana looked back at him.  Her expression carried the weight of cautious hope.  She was not sure she could do this alone, everything she had discovered indicated to her that having both a Templar and a mage working together would give them their best chance.<br/><br/>"Are you coming with me? "