LJ Idol Week 11: Thomas

The Prison, Licentian, The Gray Planet, October 2, year 2deltaQ

Number 51."

Warden Thomas's shout echoed through the prison hallways. Her footsteps were loud on the steel floors as she marched down the line of cells, glancing at the numbers on the brick walls next to the bar doors. There was a standard metal cot in each of the fifteen feet by fifteen feet cells, a toilet in the corner farthest from the cots, and a chair. Back when Thomas first started working in the prison on the gray planet, there were two prisoners per cell, but ever since the thief back in 1deltaP murdered the child abductor, the order changed to one prisoner per cell. There never seemed to be a problem with space and when a new prisoner came in, there was always an empty cell waiting. It had been that way ever since the beginning.

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a small aside to my Week 9 post