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Brookes
"I didn't hear you knock." Sully said, his pale green eyes glancing at Kyle.
"You don't have a door." Kyle replied and glanced around at the photographs hanging on Sully's wall. He took one and held it in his hand, looking at the image of the young girl it bore.
She stood on a pier looking off to the side of the frame. It was sunset and she stood largely in the shadow of a lighthouse painted with diagonal black and white stripes. There were palms and tall trees twisted and bent by the sea wind. Her red hair blazed like fire in the late day's light as it was blown with wind about her face. A peaceful, serene smile played on her lips.
"Is this your daughter?" Kyle asked quietly. Sully glanced at him and nodded.
"Yep, that's my Davina. She was six when that was taken. Right before I ended up in here." Sully replied. "You got any kids?"
"No." Kyle shook his head. Nor would he ever have children, yet another consequence of his upbringing at the Centre and the actions he'd taken upon escape. Kyle shook the thought away.
"How long have you been here?" Kyle asked.
"For life, like you." Sully replied. Kyle glanced at him and then at another photo.
"She's all grown up now. Shame is she grew up visiting her old man in this Godforsaken place." Sully said gesturing about. "Every week her whole life."
The familiarity of the young woman sunk into Kyle. He held the photograph and then thought of another face, and her voice.
"If we keep meeting like this, then people will talk."
The woman who wore Annie's perfume and who had the bedside manner of Edna was Sully's daughter.
"She's well on her way to becoming a bitter old spinster." Sully said sounding displeased. "I suppose I am partly to blame. Had I not been locked up, she never would have spent all those years with men like us."
"Does she still visit you?" Kyle asked, glancing at Sully.
"Her visits have picked back up since, the incident." Sully replied narrowing his eyes at Kyle.
"Is she alright?" Kyle asked quietly, suddenly feeling remorse the way he should have when Sully had confronted him in the library.
"She'll always have the scars." Sully replied.
TBC...
