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[cautionarytale]

I'm taking a survey.

What did everybody do for a job before, you know, coming here?


[private to Howie; added later]

I think I had girl talk. Does that count as making a friend?

Comments

[villageson.livejournal.com]

His name was 2. The Village is my home... It's complicated to explain. My father was kind of the leader there.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

I can handle complicated. Give explaining your best shot.

[villageson.livejournal.com]

It sounds insane, I know... The Village actually only existed in my mother's mind - but people could come and go from other places. Except for me. I was born there so I wasn't allowed to leave. I only found this all out not long before I arrived here... Before that I thought it was a normal place - the only place in the world.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

So inside your mom's head, there was a village run by your dad, and other people could come and go.

Weird.

[villageson.livejournal.com]

She created it but he ran it, yes. But she had to remain asleep or the place would fall apart. So I only ever got to talk to her just the once.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Are you sure you didn't just eat the wrong mushrooms or something?

There aren't even any cigarettes in the Village

[villageson.livejournal.com]

What do you mean?

My goodness he's sheltered :[

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Never mind.

[villageson.livejournal.com]

......

What's your name?

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Elle. What's yours?

[villageson.livejournal.com]

I'm 11-12.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Hi.

[villageson.livejournal.com]

Hi.

So... have you been here very long?

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Sixteen months, give or take. You get used to it after a while.

[villageson.livejournal.com]

You're a warden?

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Nope.

[villageson.livejournal.com]

Oh... So you've done something really bad?

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

I suppose I must have.

[villageson.livejournal.com]

You don't know?

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Well, I killed some people, which I guess is bad.

[villageson.livejournal.com]

.... I have too. It is bad.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

People keep telling me that.

[villageson.livejournal.com]

If you admit it's bad, maybe they'll let you go.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

I've tried.


If you think it's bad, why're you an inmate?

[villageson.livejournal.com]

We're not allowed to think that murder is bad?