INSIDE MONSTER. THE FUGITIVE.

CHAPTER 10: UNDESERVED PUNISHMENT

When they threw her on the solitary confinement floor, SolHi moaned again, feeling how her entire body fell apart, something that made her want to die. Then, feeling the coldness of the floor deeply entering her bones, SolHi shuddered because the clothes the guards put on her wasn't thick, and this amplified the pain felt all over her body a lot. Even so, SolHi didn't complain. She only gnashed her teeth, pushing herself up while supporting her palms on the floor when she tried to stand up.

She didn't manage to stand up eventually because the blows received from the guardian that attacked her left her powerless. She also felt deserted inside and wronged because she didn't hurt anybody so badly to deserve all the punishments they gave to her. Yet, even if she knew all that, SolHi understood that she couldn't impress anybody. Why exactly? Because, instead of the guardian that attacked her, the one sent to solitary confinement was her, accused of attacking him when he tried to take her back to her cell. Something unbelievable if thinking carefully about this because the male guardians were prohibited from appearing at the showers. Yet, this detail hadn't been taken into account by anyone. They just decided to punish SolHi for that incident and for her „dare" to fight against death and survive that night.

„Something I will always do, no matter what," SolHi murmured, closing her eyes and forcing a smile. Then, as she always did when she felt weak, she „teleported" herself mentally to the seashore, on the same rocks where she stood last time with DooSan, having a soul-to-soul talk with him.

Getting there and looking into the distance, SolHi suddenly felt her heart freely beating in her chest. She felt that she got to Paradise, in the arms of love and maternal safety. She felt that even if this was a feeling SolHi was always banned from having, a feeling SinHa had never given to her child, but which SolHi had felt so many times before in front of the sea.

Why did SolHi mentally teleport herself there when she felt pain? Because... there was her source of power there. There, sitting on the rocks, with the sea bathing her barefoot feet with cold water drops while having her eyes closed, SolHi was listening to the silence of the surroundings. She was also listening to the waves struggling in the distance or the lonely song of the seagulls above the sea. Even the Saint breath of air she felt around there, something that often entered her bones and gave her a chance to breathe freely again.

With such images in her head, SolHi fell asleep eventually when the pain in her body weakened. She probably slept about an hour or more because she definitely lacked powers after that fight. Then, when she felt a strong scent of mold and moisture, SolHi awakened, shuddering inside again because she felt the cold-like ice air of solitary confinement. Even so, not even at that time did SolHi ask to be taken out of there and taken to her cell, saying that she was innocent or begging for mercy. She didn't even complain because she received an undeserved punishment, as she heard the other prisoner did, who was closed into another cold and dark room, screaming her discontent this way.

No. Unlike the second prisoner, SolHi appreciated those moments of solitude. She was grateful for them because only this way she could fully feel that she lived and that she had one more chance to see the sun tomorrow. If she had cried, as the other prisoner was doing, she would have been probably beaten, a luxury she couldn't afford at that moment.

SolHi definitely could not afford to be beaten at that moment. Not when her entire body hurt her like hell, especially the left side where she hit herself when she fell on the floor of the bathroom. Thus, feeling the harsh pain piercing her body, SolHi touched the left side of her belly and, gnashing her teeth, murmured, „I've broken something for sure. It wouldn't be anything surprising because the floor was wet and I fell on my stomach."

It hurt like hell. Even so, she was still satisfied because she suffered only that, and that it wasn't worse. Yes, it could have been worse if the guardian had asphyxiated her and sent her to the other world only to make SolHi's enemies happy, a satisfaction SolHi didn't intend to give any of them, especially to Min SinJu or to that one who others called Scar.