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“Is there a way out of here? A secret door or a guard I can bribe?”
I shook my head.
“The guards are unbribable. And there’s no door, secret or otherwise.”
“But there must be a way out. No prison is impregnable.”
“This one is. It’s where they put all the worst criminals in the galaxy. They put them here so they can forget about them. They don’t care what happens to us. That’s why they let us fight. This prison takes up the entire Gharr moon. They have different sections for different purposes. I’ve been here most of my life and I still don’t know what all the sections are.”
“Bummer,” Ivy said, letting her head flop back on the pillow.
She clutched the blanket close but it did nothing to ease my imagination.
I filled in the outline of her body that pressed against the blanket.
It wasn’t easy to forget we were both half-naked.
“I was hoping there was some way out of here,” she said. “Every movie I’ve ever seen set in a prison involves a breakout.”
“What’s a movie?”
She looked at me as if I wasn’t being serious.
“It’s a form of entertainment. You watch it.”
“Oh. Like the fights?”
“In a way. But not really. Do you read books?”
“Yes. I read some about my species when I was young.”
“How about novels? Stories?”
I shook my head.
Ivy sat up and focused on how she could explain these “movies” better. She tugged on the blanket, exposing my chest and arms.
Ivy stared at me a moment before licking her lips and tearing her eyes from me.
“Its, uh, something I love a lot. Stories about people going on adventures.”
“History?”
“Not history. History happened. Stories are like history but they didn’t happen.”
History that didn’t happen?
“They’re lies?” I said.
“Yes!” Ivy said, clicking her fingers. “And no. It’s sort of like… Dreams. You have dreams, right?”
“All the time.”
“So, it’s like a dream… except it makes sense.”
Ivy frowned and pressed a hand to her head.
“I’m not making any sense, am I?”
