A/N: Prompt 20 from W. Y. Traveller: Prison
Prisons
Eugenia Ronder views the world,
From shade and shadow; face, thick-veiled.
She's bound by honour; secrets kept,
Although her lover's courage failed.
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Lucy Hebron views the world,
Behind a crudely fashioned mask.
Her freedom's curbed by prejudice,
Acceptance deemed too much to ask.
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Beryl Stapleton, now views
The world as sister, not as wife.
She can't escape her husband's grasp,
Attempts would surely cost her life.
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Godfrey Emsworth, views the world,
Confined by diagnostic fears.
He's hidden at his father's will;
His friend misled, just disappears.
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Miss Rucastle, views the world,
Entirely in her father's care.
She's kept away from love for money;
Faded dreams and faded hair.
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Helen Stoner views the world;
Alone, bereft of kith and kin.
Condemned to share her sister's fate,
Her bedroom locked, a beast within.
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Emilia Lucca views the world,
Imprisoned by her husband's past.
She hides away from all she knows,
There's no escape from shadows cast.
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John Openshaw, he views the world,
Restricted by his family's curse.
His fate marked out in orange pips;
Despite attempts to halt, reverse.
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Kitty Winter views the world
From London jail through bolted door.
She's well aware of what was risked,
And what her vengeful act was for.
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Sherlock Holmes, he views the world,
Constrained by distance, loss, regret.
He might as well have prison bars
Upon the mountainside,
Tibet.
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A/N 2: References to The Veiled Lodger, The Yellow Face, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Blanched Soldier, The Copper
Beeches, The Speckled Band, The Red Circle, Five Orange Pips, The Illustrious Client, and The Empty House.