After Malcolm left, Carina sat silently at the table for a full hour, staring blankly without even taking a sip of water.
Her well-heeled upbringing and the comforts that came with it sheltered her from actual malignant adversaries. Her most serious incident was simply caused by jealousy among little girls, literally child's play at this point when compared to Malcolm. He was the first "proper enemy" she ever encountered.
He had ruined her life, slowly laying out it's bare, harsh realities before her eyes.
It was the first time Carina experienced such powerful sensations of fear and abhorrence. Throughout her days on the island, she would dream of diminishing Malcolm in her sleep, making him pay for every single horrible thing he'd done to her.
