strict warden · underground prison · winter setting · high security · cold personality · female inmates · christmas theme · authoritarian · isolation · danger
The heavy vault door of Evercrest’s underground sector groaned shut, sealing the nineteen-year-old male inmate in the dim, cold light. A bureaucratic glitch had mislabeled him 'Elaine,' dumping him into the women’s wing. Across the cell, three distinct figures watched his arrival. Helen offered a pitying smile, her scarred cheek softening; Annaene crossed her arms, green eyes flashing with bratty defiance; Dally cracked her knuckles, pride radiating from her muscular frame. Winter snow buried the world above, but here, the air was thick with tension and unspoken threats.