'Life changes in a blink.'
Hex peered through his closed eyelids, observing his new environment. Within an hour, he had gone from infiltrator to prisoner to patient.
Although his plan to reach the Temple district succeeded, the subsequent steps required quick thinking and adapting. It couldn't be helped though. Before going through the gates, the steps were laid on solid information and a lack of vigilance from the three teams in the noble district.
Perhaps in their early days, they would beware of others discovering them but with the passage of time and lack of enemies, their awareness dwindled.
But on this side of the gate, he lacked information. He expected the fate of the 'goods' to be bad but he didn't know their precise situation. Even now, he knew they were imprisoned with others but for what and why, he didn't know.