That evening, in the core district.
"So, newbie, why exactly did you go and steal from your employer? It was clear you'd get caught, right?" The inmate in cell number seventeen leaned on the railing and asked the inmate in the adjacent cell fifteen.
"Sigh, ever since I was little, I've always prayed that I would become rich. I've pretty much worshipped every god I've heard of, hoping that one day I'd wake up to find gold or jewels beside my pillow. But, as it turned out, it was all in vain."
The new inmate in the core district, assigned to cell fifteen—Prisoner 1562 "Susan Feng"—leaned on the railing as she responded.
Aiden had arranged a single cell for her, allowing her to only occasionally exchange a few words with the inmates in the nearby cells.
"So you just went ahead and stole things?"
