The Pendulum

"Here an impious mob of torturers, insatiable, fed their long-lasting
frenzies for innocent blood. Now that the fatherland is safe,
now that the cave of murder has been destroyed, in the place where
foul death once was, life and health are open to all."

Kara got captured by Cadmus, locked up in a small room, she doubts she would see Lena again.