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said, "Noyet

today Get some rest," she dictated and walked out,

her footsteps echoing behind her The great house

seemed to s every sound until it was terribly

silent

I closed my eyes and then opened them and

looked up at the ceiling I had drea

upstairs, returning to Grandmother Hudson's room I

thought I'd feel safe and happy there again This was

nothing like any sort of ho I couldn't even

have the illusion of getting back to some normality

Everything here and everything done for me was

constantly designed to remind me about who I was

and what I had become: an inmate, shifted from one

prison to another