Meet the Cast
The Narrator
We really don't know much about our narrator. Yes, we know he's been sentenced to death and locked in a cell. We know he's more than a little bit, shall we say, unstable – but, then again, who wo...
The Inquisition (Judges)
It's hard to know what to call our narrator's captors. Yes, they appear as judges at the beginning of the story – but then what? For most of the story, they're faceless torturers; they express th...
General Lasalle
Lasalle's here to do one thing and one thing only: save our narrator. And save him he does, pulling the narrator back from the very edge of the pit as he's about to fall in. Sure, he has less than...