[Shaun]

On the way to the showers, Michaela and Ieva were trading small talk about how some of the prison guards that ushered them in were quite cute. At a similar age, they seemed to hit it off immediately and felt the need to bond after realising that this prison was, curiously, housing both genders. Maybe they've finally realised that lesbians exist, Ieva smirked to herself. As everyone else around them showered, gathered their soaps and headed back to their cells there were just the two girls alone.

In her watchtower, Livia monitored every inmate returning to their cells with half her attention; the other was fixed on a crossword puzzle that had been published in Tregard Magazine. The laissez-faire approach to inmate interaction was a new approach as part of the program: psychologists and politicians had lobbied for it under the impression that it would help towards rehabilitating criminals as a form of micro-society. Fewer guards around for the most basic routines - showers, meals, chores - was supposed to give the inmates the feeling they could be trusted. The whole idea was, of course, torn apart by the tabloids and right-wing politicians but after the austerity measures they introduced, just about anything liberal was going to win the election.

In ICB Prison, Ieva had just picked up her towel when she thought she saw a shadow pass by behind her.

"Mik, is that you?" she called, as she began to dry her legs.
"What?" shouted Michaela over the running water.
She didn't get a response.