Meister vs Meister
Both Kieran and Alec had a modicum of stealth skills, but Blanche didn't have that word in her dictionary at all.
Of course, she was also strong enough not to need it, which was why the two males were following in her footsteps silently as she walked down the hallways elegantly.
The place was designed in such a way that they had to cross the entire hallway full of prisoners before they could descend to a lower level.
It was designed with two things in mind. One, to make it harder for whatever prisoners they had currently in here to escape, and two, to slow down anyone who was here that got any ideas about 'rescuing' people.
It was a rather smart thing to do, because the people that did successfully manage to break into here would have been disturbed by the prisoner's states and would have stopped to help them.