INSIDE MONSTER. THE FUGITIVE.

CHAPTER 11: DOUBTS

The next morning DooSan came to prison to see SolHi. Yet, instead of seeing her, the guards told him that Ian SolHi had the visits prohibited. The reason? „She doesn't deserve them," one of the guardians told DooSan in a mean voice. „Just as she doesn't deserve to breathe. Not after she tried to kill one of the guards."

The news confused DooSan a lot. „To kill? He wondered, sitting on one of the chairs from the lobby, feeling the worm of fear squirming deep inside him. Then, when he could control himself, DooSan stood up and, to be heard by everyone, especially by the guards, said through his teeth, „Damn idiots! Since when the prosecutor in charge cannot see a prisoner? Even if she's in solitary confinement."

The guardian, without losing her temper, glared at him. Then, as though repeating his words, she said, „Since when? Right from the moment you asked for a personal visit with Ian SolHi and not for work. So, if you want to see her, turn back when she has the visits allowed."

When exactly he would be able to see SolHi again, nobody told him. He only felt the irony and the contempt in the guardian's voice, something he disliked a lot. This even made him gnash his teeth, feeling his lower jaw badly shaking because of the fear from his soul. He felt wronged, just as he felt that SolHi was wronged at that moment because he was sure that she wasn't guilty but others. Who exactly?! DooSan wasn't sure. He knew only what others told him: that SolHi tried to kill one of the guardians and she was sent to solitary confinement because of this.

„This is impossible," DooSan murmured. „She's not capable of this." He said all this while exiting the prison. „Yes, I'm pretty sure that SolHi didn't attack anybody. Even if she did that, it was to protect herself. Then... why the hell was she punished for this? More than that, what exactly happens now?"

He didn't receive an answer to his question because there wasn't anybody to answer it. Only after the weekend, he was allowed to see SolHi. That morning, the guards brought SolHi to the Visiting Room, supporting her by the arms. This scared DooSan a lot because she was visibly weakened and had dark circles under her eyes. She was also closing and opening her eyes repeatedly. All this hinted to him that the daylight bothered her a lot after they took her out of solitary confinement at Iun Min Hiok's order, who signed the order at DooSan's request. Why did Min Hiok ask for SolHi to be released? Because, keeping her in solitary confinement, they were obstructing justice, explaining that if DooSan wanted to see Ian SolHi, it was to find details about a case they investigated. Yet, Min Hiok signed that document only after many hours when DooSan begged him to do that, telling his friend that what happened to SolHi that night and the fact that she was sent to solitary confinement was weird and it might have been a challenge to the death.

This thought related to „a challenge to the death" wasn't an exaggeration on DooSan's part for sure because SolHi looked more like a ghost than a human that day. She, as though would have feared to see the powerful sunlight, which entered the room through the small window with bars, covered her eyes with her arm. This gesture made DooSan feel that he lacked air at one point.

The state of anxiety that DooSan felt didn't last long. Only for a few moments. After that, the guardians forced SolHi to sit on a chair and they withdrew, having a clear order from the warden of the prison: to leave them alone. She decided this after receiving a phone call from the Prosecution when she had been informed about an investigation in process and this „motivated" her to cooperate. If not, she was announced that there were planned searches within the prison after the Prosecution had been informed that „the prisoners received a cruel treatment from the prison's personnel."

When Min Hiok told this to the warden of the prison, DooSan was in his colleague's office. Hearing this, it seemed an exaggeration to DooSan. Yet, at that moment when he saw how SolHi looked after a few days spent in solitary confinement, he understood that the „cruel treatment" was damn real. He didn't understand this only seeing the wounds on her body and that her hair had been cut again, but it was also because SolHi looked so weakened. She, as though completely lacking the power to look into his eyes, lay her head on her arms, blocking the sunlight with her arm to protect her eyes.