“I never really had a family,” he said, crossing my cell and sitting at the end of the bunk. “Had a wife once, but she left long before the thunder came. No children. The people living here are my family.”
Banks always knew the right thing to say. It was like he was in tune with your own personal thoughts. It was like he could read your mind somehow. Perhaps there was no trickery to it and he did feel just the same as the rest of us? Perhaps he did see the inmates as his family now? For a prison governor, he was pretty easy to talk to, and I often found him standing on the landings, propped against the stone walls, hands in pockets and chatting to groups of inmates. If he wasn’t talking, he could be found on the yard playing ball or shooting some hoops. He had a kind of fatalistic approach to life now – maybe we all did. Those guards I saw dying on the yard that day were the first of many deaths I had seen over the last five years. Some of the inmates had died from illness – simple stuff that could have been treated on the outside with some pills that probably cost just a few pence. A couple of the guards had lost their minds and been found swinging. Death had become commonplace these days, and the Governor seemed to take it all in his stride – we all did, I guess.
Then, staring at me, Banks said, “Why are you so desperate to leave, Tessa? I’ve read your file and you have no family either. What is so important on the other side of that wall that you would risk everything, even your life for?”
Looking right back at him, I said. “There are two reasons.”
“And what are they?” he quizzed me.
“Joe McBride,” I answered.
“And the second thing?” he pushed.
“I want to get to that island,” I told him.
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