Remember me naked
I can smell damp leather, disinfectant, and the acrid scent of fear.
Not mine—that of others.
Outside, the sky is a dirty gray.
The clouds stretch like a scar across the world.
Fine rain splatters against the window, a steady murmur, almost tender.
I stare at that trickle of water sliding down the mesh, like a thread between two realities: theirs and mine.
I no longer have a name.
They call me "inmate 4382-B."
But among themselves, in the corridors, I've heard another word whispered, softer, crueler:
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