Chapter 41 Willing Tools

Billy scaled through the pages of the newspaper. It was break time in jail, and all the prisoners had been released into the field to exercise their muscles under the sun, except him, who demanded he be handed the most recent newspapers. For the other prisoners, stepping outside to feel the air of the sky and miss its beauty brace their skin is the greatest opportunity to experience a sort of freedom, but for Billy, sending those noisy, poor, and wretched things out of the building and sparing him the space to meditate is the greatest taste of peace. He stopped at a page with the names Mark and Allison. On it were their prewedding pictures. ‘Madness!’ he cursed through clenched teeth. After ruining his life and sending him to prison, those two ingrates think they can be spared the grace to live a life full of bliss and love. He shot the paper and saw a wader waiting by the bars with a baton. The prison guards here are usually armed with loaded guns, with which they either kill or i