Zephyr had worked at Stormcage for ten years and ever since the day; he had started work there, as a guard there was always one prisoner who confused him.
The first thing that confused him was the length of this woman's sentence. To have twelve thousand consecutive life sentences was unheard of, even if somebody did commit murder; usually the sentence was only 100 consecutive life sentences or at the most 500 consecutive life sentences. But after 500 life sentences there wasn't really much point in a longer sentence because 500 life sentences was pretty much the length of the longest possible life span of any known living creature so the prisoner would usually die before their sentence had finished even if they didn't commit suicide. But this woman had the longest sentence in the history of Stormcage, presumably the universe, and she was the most upbeat of all of their prisoners, she had her bad days of course, who doesn't?
Nevertheless, usually she had a smile on her face she even usually would playfully flirt with the guards. This caused him to wonder how somebody how had been sentenced to live the rest of their life in the highest security prison in the known universe could keep her spirits up especially as the conditions she was living in were what he would describe as less then comfortable.
What confused him even more is that she stayed voluntarily, not a day went by that she didn't escape but like always, after she escaped, she would saunter back in to her cell and make some kind of witty remark. It struck him as odd because if she was capable of escaping from the highest security prison in the known universe then surly she would be able to live in the outside world without being caught by whomever the prison sent to collect her yet each time she escaped she came back on her own accord.
On one of his many trips past her cell he decided to ask her why she kept on coming back, however, her answer just confused him more. she told him that the reason she came back was because when she was locked up it was the first time she had ever been truly free and she felt at home here, plus apparently she had told the man she killed that she would live out her sentence, after all it's not as if she's caged up unable to experience the universe.
The reason that this befuddled him was because he couldn't see how being locked in the highest security prison in the known universe is the first time somebody could be free. He couldn't understand how a prison could feel like home and he most certainly couldn't understand how someone could value their word to the person that they killed so much that they would be willing to be locked up for twelve thousand life sentences.
This prisoner was truly a mystery. Nobody knew anything about whom she murdered and why she murdered him or her. This woman had been here longer than anybody else guards and prisoners alike and she would be here long after they had all gone, she never seemed to age and always had a smile on her face. She always noticed if there was a new guard and made them feel welcome on their first day, she made a habit of getting to know all the guards well and was genuinely sorry whenever one left. Which person in their right mind ever treated their captors like that, nobody else in Stormcage that's for sure. Suffice to say River Song confused him like nobody else has ever or will do.