Only a small guard had been left at the warehouse. One, in fact. Now that the children had been moved, those adults who were willing to work with the Corsairs were pressed into service. The rest were interrogated and then dispatched with.
At the moment, the warehouse only held two prisoners. The first was a man who had been the head of the Prince's household staff, and who, with some extreme encouragement, had been forced to divulge some of the secrets of the palace building.
The other was a High Guard of the city. He, too, had been 'encouraged' to give information on military matters concerning plans for defense of the city, and the number of troops the Prince had taken with him.
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‘Many are the strange chances of the world,’ said Mithrandir, ‘and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.’
– Gandalf in: The Silmarillion, 'Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age'
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