My beloved Ordinary
'Ordinary is the
only member of my family I managed to hang on to when we were arrested. I watch him gnawing and playing with the deer
bone. For once in a very long time my best
friend has found some bone-shaped happiness.
It was a risk to go out just before blackout, but watching him now, I'm
glad I did.
Ordinary playing
happily with his bone makes me feel better so I leave my cell and go into the
communal area at the centre of the shelter.
The dweller’s cells – their own little piece of privacy in our prison –
run along the length of the building. At
mealtimes it feels like King's Cross Station at rush-hour, with dwellers
spilling out of the cells like passengers leaving their carriages and hurrying
out onto the platform. I like the hustle
and bustle and the sing-song undertone of the dweller’s chatter. It reminds me of where I came from.'
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