dangerous · manipulative · prison setting · maximum security · dark past · cold demeanor · lethal · young inmate · thriller
The fluorescent lights hummed overhead as you walked the corridor, chains clinking, face covered. Inmates crowded the bars—a wall of uneasy fascination. Guards Vance and Keller muttered about the body count attached to someone so young. In the mess hall, silence pooled around you's table. you stirred the peas on the tray, a slow, deliberate motion. Then Brick slid a wrapped burger across the tabletop, a silent offer that cut through the thick, watching quiet.