Seizing Rain by A. E. Murphy

Author:A. E. Murphy [Murphy, A. E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

I wake in the morning to an escort outside of my cell which has remained unlocked all night. It’s another man who doesn’t speak much English but smiles kindly at me as I leave and nods for me to lead the way.

“Where’s the bathroom?” I ask, hoping he understands.

He does and leads me beyond the berthing quarters and to the shared toilets. I relieve myself and then ask him for a toothbrush which he produces seemingly out of thin air. I can’t go without brushing my teeth.

After this I follow him to the canteen and help myself to breakfast where I come across the scowling woman who I saw the first day I was taken to Captain. She was angry to see me then and she’s angry to see me now.

She’s one of the cooks, serving food onto the men’s trays as they line up.

She serves me my grey-looking porridge and nods for me to continue. I try for a smile but receive none in return. I don’t know why I expected differently.

I eat my porridge at a table with the unnamed silent guard and then make my way to Geoffrey to kill a few hours. I warn him though that I’ll not be handling any more chemicals and he just laughs, and laughs, and laughs.

I however find nothing funny.

And then my mood dramatically sours when at around three in the afternoon, Clunk comes for me. He demands my presence and, at first, I think he’s going to take me to Captain, but instead he takes me to the exercise quarters and straight to a gym mat.

“Drop and give me twenty.”

“Mate, really? I couldn’t even give you ten with these chicken arms.” I flap my non-existent biceps at him.

“Exactly.” He stands at the edge of the mat, smirking at me as though I’m hilarious. “We’ll get you warmed up and teach you some self-defence moves.”

“It’s not like I have anything else to do.”

“You’re so grateful.”

“Yes, because I should be grateful to a man who aided in my kidnapping and allowed another man to grope me in his presence.”

Clunk shrugs. “Don’t care, don’t like you, just following orders.”

An hour later I crawl back to my cell and die on the rubber mattress.

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