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The second day of Wren’s incarceration had been a long day, with nothing to do but read and wait for her meals to be brought to her. She’d finished ‘About a Boy’ and had now started reading a book whose title she found intriguing, ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time’, by Mark Haddon. She was finding it to be simultaneously funny and sad, two words that described perfectly her feelings about the last two weeks. Jerome’s world was both funny ha-ha at times (like how he’d given his clothes dispenser a name) and funny peculiar at others (like needing a bizarre costume for virtual s*x). But the sadness of Jerome’s life outweighed the funny side of it; he was a prisoner in solitary confinement, an innocent trapped by fear of the outside world. Indeed, he’d had no conception th
