"For a while they kept a number of us drugged with magebane. Before someone could come to administer another dose after a few days we broke out. Someone had... gotten hold of a key somehow and quietly unlocked us all from our cells. At first we were quiet in our escape, but reaching the end there were a number of guards and a fight broke out. A number of us managed to get transport across the sea while some of the others broke off to find someone. And... now we're here."

It wasn't a super detailed description he knows, but a lot of it he didn't remember, his mind being foggy and confused at the time. It was the gist of it though.