Lenard wakes up, on a room with only one lamp, the walls do not have any window there, a dirty bed who wasn't washed probably since the time when the outbreak was still on effect and rampaged his natal country. He gets up from the floor, he goes to the door, and he tries to open it, but it is locked, and it won't budge so easily.

He is trying to yell for help, but after one hour of doing that, he came to a realization that this would be pointless because he will be locked here, until those days of his sentence here will pass. looks on the walls, and there he sees a lot of drawings, some indecent, and some scribbles, such as the one wrote with red letters: "This the safest place from this whole Prison!", or one who says the same sentence for almost one hundred times: "I want to die!". He gets up and heads to the bed.

He thought he will try to stay on it, but when it got close to there, a horrible stench hit him, and made him to back away from the bed. He goes closer to see why is that stench there, and he sees rats who were eating the bed, getting out from the pillows and eating dead rats. He also sees one human arm there. Lenard was afraid to even look down, since he thinks there might be a corpse, or what remained of it there.

He goes back to that locked there, he falls on his butt to the floor, and leans with his back on the wall. Lenard is looking at the ceiling, and he starts to sob, cries and hits the walls with his fists while he is screaming for the unholy things he has committed who were done only for that psychopathic thirst of amusement.

***

On the next day, Lenard is still there, he looks at the walls of this cell, he re-reads the same sentences, over and over again, to make the time fly faster. He hasn't slept good last night, since he got rats on the cell and on his beds, which made him afraid that a few of them might jump on him and eat his body while he is sleeping. He then sees a portion of the wall, empty, no marker on it, no dirt on it, nothing, it is clean. Lenard goes to a corner of a room, he uses the lamp to illuminate that corner, and there he sees a marker there, on the concrete floor. He takes that marker, and heads to that empty wall where he writes this message.

"Mr. Boss will die and when it will happen, I will be free."

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Sounds a little silly, but this small message, somehow made Lenard feel better. He puts the marker on that table. He proceeds to back to the corner of this cell, and stays there until the time proceed to passes by. While he was doing that, he slept a few times, but he wakes up due to a rat who constantly touched his naked feet.

***

On the second day, Lenard is walking in circle on this cell, talking to himself and imagining that he is talking to someone on this room.

"I know it sounds crazy, but you have got to believe it. This prison used me for doing kills, and they put me here... Sure, they were bad things I did, but he forced me to do it... I would be able to do it." he stops, and he looks at the walls like there is someone there, but nobody is there. "What? Kill the Mr. Boss? I cannot do it. The man is armed to the teeth with the guards and some inmates are probably kissing his butt every day when they have the occasion, only to get a good meal." he stares again at the wall like he listens to somebody, and he looks on the right corner of the cell. "The vent? What am I? A cartoon or porn star actress? I cannot fit in it, plus, all the vents nowadays have sensors for these types of actions."

Lenard is looking on the bed where are the rats, who most of them were killed by him last night. He used the marker he had only pierced their brains and used the bones of that skeleton to kill a few of them, it was effective, but it killed two of them at least. He looks again at the wall, and he says with a loud voice.

"When I leave this cell. I will have a new behaviour. No more killings... What do you mean it will not happen?... W-Why are laughing at me?... You think I will be not able to do it, do you?"

Before he could say any word, he hears the door getting unlocked. He goes to that door, and as soon as it was about to be opened, a guard enters the cell.

"Inmate from North Block 03?"

"H-Here." says Lenard breathing heavily.

"Looks like your time on this cell is over. Now head to your cell until we have an idea to rape you."

"T-T-Thnak you, sir." he says that shaking and heading to his cell room where Rodriguez is probably waiting for him.

When Lenard has left, the guard remained on that cell for a few more minutes to detach the camera from there who recorded Lenard for a long time. This guard is also looking at the sentences on the wall, and he sees the one Lenard was writing on it. Thanks to his flashlight he got on the left hand, he was able to read it correctly, and after that, he does a small grin, and he says in a loud voice, like Lenard was still here.

"You boy think everything is that easily."

The guards head outside, closes the door of the cell and heads to the office of Mr. Boss to bring him the video camera who recorded Lenard for a long period of time.