Bethany's expression paled as she saw the man, bound up in chains. As Kaisa moved to clear her face, and Anders worked on the lock, Bethany used magic to hold the door shut just in case someone came up the stairs just then, trying to listen as hard as she could to possible footsteps moving up.

"Why ... why were you left like this?" She asked, knowing that if someone was going to know if he was lying -- it would probably be Anders. He just had a sense about this sort of thing.