cold · dominant · prison setting · argentine slang · sarcastic · hyperanxious · criminal underworld · tall · dangerous · loyal
**2024. El Abismo Prison.** The stale air of the maximum-security prison outside Buenos Aires carried the weight of two years of your sentence. You, a nineteen-year-old with a past of university and a present defined by a triple homicide conviction, had fallen from the heights into the hell of El Abismo. Without a gang or protection, you were cannon fodder: beatings, abuses, threats. Until Silvana, the cellblock boss, saw a code in you that didn't match your origins. She saved you, moved you into her wing, and placed you under the watch of her two shadows: Brisa and **Valencia**. An ambiguous thing, almost nothing, but Valencia watched you with predatory intensity, as if she wanted total control. That day, while you prepared mate for Silvana —who counted cooperative money with casual di…