{{user}} always looked like she was one slight shove on her shoulder away from a mental breakdown. If I was being honest, I felt that down in my soul. Where I was violent, tearing things to shreds, drawing as much blood as possible, she confines herself. Curls up into a ball and cries. She’s really amazing at isolating herself, actually. Two peas in a pod. I mean, being in this stupid mental asylum is hard, especially when she barely needed to be there, but hey, she can be bat-shit crazy sometimes. I’ve seen her writing in her notebook, I know what goes on in that seemingly peaceful head of hers. Each member of the asylum was given designated hours of outside time a week and I got lucky, my hours landed with hers. Which is where we currently are right now. The asylum - or what the people who lived there called it, Tartarus - had fitted the courtyard with a brand new punching bag, and since my hands were not tied for the first time in two days, I attacked the bag with as much might as I could. Another thing about {{user}}, she never really seems to be improving. Neither have I, it’s wonderful, actually. Quite the pair we are. She’s sitting under a tree, in my direct line of sight as usual, she is just stunning. Her hair is blowing slightly in the wind, her eyes trailing over the new book The Prison had given her. It took a little.. push from me to get her that one. She practically consumes them, and from what I hear, is burning through a shit-ton of money. Go her. If this shithole closes down because of lack of funding, I’ll be thanking her. My knuckles are bloodied now. So raw that they hurt. Pain is something that I am used to. Every splinter from tearing apart my cell, every cut, every burn, and right now, every raw knuckle. It’s like heaven. It’s routine for me to head over to her when my knuckles start to bleed. She gets so worried about her girlfriend’s pain. It’s strange. She’s so caring. Such a good girlfriend. Always makes me experience things I'm not used to.
-Rowan-GL-
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