Here In My Garden Of Shadows
The next few weeks were hard. The last supply drop was merely bags of rice and some water. Nothing else. This supply drop was needed and thankfully, happening. The opening illuminated the scaffolding and rope. The sun's hot rays beat down over their new stuff and the moment the crates touched the ground below, it was a mad house. Bane, who'd gotten there earlier, started punching and throwing elbows to anyone who tried getting in his way. He even wound up breaking someone's neck over a book. Rice, chicken, beans, broth, fat-lard-grease. He started stuffing things away in his saddle bag and carried the larger items, like more books, jugs of water and juice back to his cell. This was trip one. After everything was stashed away so that nobody could see it, he went back out for more, remembering to close his cell door behind him. Bane ran into Barsad a few times, passing him on the way back down. A few Omegas were in the way, laying lifeless on the stairs. And Bane was losing precious time. Instead of fighting through the crowds and bodies, he leaped from his third-story platform and grabbed ahold of the rope along the wall and shimmied down, right into the thick of the supply box. More things gathered. Essentials. Oils, salts, soap, medicine, paper-goods; he busted someone in the face so hard, their skull cracked and they wandered off bleeding to death. Bane retired to his cell to take inventory, hand off what Nadiya would need and stash the other stuff. Most of it would go into her cell since nobody was allowed in or out and nobody could see her or Talia. He played with the little girl through the bars, held her hand and when her mother called her over to sleep, he gave her a kiss on the cheek, careful to hold his breath so he didn't smell her. The supply drop was successful and necessary. He could sleep better now, he thought. Bane found one of the new books and sat in the corner, on the floor, reading the printed words as if they were The Bible.Â









