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An Unexploded Shell Inside a Cell [Open]
She thought her life would be different by now, but she's a prisoner again. Voluntary, she guesses, which makes it a little bit different than the first time. At least she can blink on her own this time. Not that she's using her body to do much good.
Ironically, she almost always looked better when she was a more total prisoner. Without her makeup and hair clips and changes of clothes to arrange herself into some approximation of health, without even a mirror to confirm her suspicions, she looks a wreck. Dark circles line her reddened eyes; her hair is unbrushed and falls in tangled clumps over her face; chapped, bloodied lips and fingernails bitten down to the flesh speak to her uneasy transition back into captivity.
Eva's given up all attempts to look 'okay'. She ripped a man's face open with her bare fingers. She's been a long road away from 'okay' for a while now, but she spent too long mistaking her anger and stubbornness for strength and resilience to recognize it. She's wised up now.
She really wants a drink right now. Instead she has some books - selected poems by Pablo Neruda and an anthology of poetry by women poets in the Andes - and a pillow and blanket. She's curled up on the cot with the former book in her hand, but drifting in and out of sleep. Her breath comes lazy and heavy as she alternately reads, dreams, and watches the door to the brig with heavy-lidded eyes, looking for nothing.
Ironically, she almost always looked better when she was a more total prisoner. Without her makeup and hair clips and changes of clothes to arrange herself into some approximation of health, without even a mirror to confirm her suspicions, she looks a wreck. Dark circles line her reddened eyes; her hair is unbrushed and falls in tangled clumps over her face; chapped, bloodied lips and fingernails bitten down to the flesh speak to her uneasy transition back into captivity.
Eva's given up all attempts to look 'okay'. She ripped a man's face open with her bare fingers. She's been a long road away from 'okay' for a while now, but she spent too long mistaking her anger and stubbornness for strength and resilience to recognize it. She's wised up now.
She really wants a drink right now. Instead she has some books - selected poems by Pablo Neruda and an anthology of poetry by women poets in the Andes - and a pillow and blanket. She's curled up on the cot with the former book in her hand, but drifting in and out of sleep. Her breath comes lazy and heavy as she alternately reads, dreams, and watches the door to the brig with heavy-lidded eyes, looking for nothing.
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"I haven't heard of you before. Are you with Security?"
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He didn't seem intent on elaborating further. He just went back to quietly and patiently waiting.
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Was that much really not obvious?
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"I didn't ask what you were looking for. I asked what you were hoping to find here." It was a subtle, but important difference, at least in his rather screwed up brain. He didn't know the details of why she was in here, but that wasn't important to him. But the swiftness and silence of it, coupled with her current condition, was what seemed to capture his attention.
No resistence. No challenges. At least none that were on the record.
"You allowed yourself to end up here for a reason." So, why? What did she hope to find in those four walls?
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"Yes. I had the integrity to report myself for a crime and do my sentence. I like to think that's an accomplishment in this day and age."
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So why was she doing this? He had his theories, but no clear answer.
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"Was it your destruction, salvation, or something else you hoped to find in there?" Peace? Pain? A place to hide?
What did she want for herself?
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"Or perhaps you don't know." Which would only make her situation all the more worse.
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