Then I did exactly what she said. I sat down on the bed following her with my eyes. I tried to suss her from head to toe. The wooden table put some distance between us, which reassured me. Thousands of questions circled around through my mind and as many answers came crowding in an attempt to make sense of my confusion. My mind had become a thread ball full of knots hopelessly entangled in chaos.
We both kept still looking intently at each other. Slowly, I surprised myself getting used to her presence and after a few moments, I whispered inquisitively:
”If you don’t mind me asking: who are you? What are you doing in my cell? How on earth have you got in here?” I fired all those questions at her happy to find myself able to speak up again.
She didn’t say a word, but smiled instead. Her s
