Cameron leaned against the brick wall in the yard and watched her breath steam from her mouth. The jackets they were given were hardly heavy enough to fight the Maryland wind of a February afternoon. Few were butch enough to brave the cold anyway. But Cam had to get out of the building. The air inside was getting danker day by day and she wondered if she wasn’t becoming a tad claustrophobic.
She finished her cigarette and ground it into the concrete with her shoe. She turned her collar up a little higher and rubbed her ears. They were burning from the cold but she hesitated about going back inside just yet. The cold air was what she needed to keep her mind clear.
She had to think and the loneliness of the yard was the only place she could concentrate. Outside in the cold was the one plac
