The way a typewriter works makes me think of a piece of paper like the skin of an animal. Little pointed shapes punch it and the paper bleeds black blood, and the cuts tell you something. I can't figure them out though – the other people stare at the papers and I guess they look at the order of the marks, and it means more than just black blood on papers. I know it's not paper blood though; when they first gave me my typewriter, I felt around on the insides and the blood got all over my fingers, so I thought it was machine blood, that this thing wasn't supposed to be open in the top and someone cut it open. But it tasted worse than blood, it stuck for days and everything I touched got black and smeared. I started to smear it on my face until someone took my hands and shook them, and said, "Don't! No mess!" and I stopped.
Mostly we're left alone, to type, unless we start a fight or someone throws things. I remember fighting a lot because I didn't want to type, there were huge emergencies that started with one person going to someone else's desk and grabbing fistfuls of paper, throwing them, and the other person would stand on their desk and kick the typewriter onto the floor and then people from around them would jump in and start biting each other, until everyone in the room was screaming. We wouldn't have to type for the rest of the day, but we had to sit in our quiet rooms afterward.
There are only ten of us, because we were difficult. But we've matured, so now on most days only one of them sits outside our room, behind the glass. When visitors come, a supervisor will walk between our desks and make sure we're typing, while people watch. I realized that they like it better when we type with both our hands, using different fingers for different marks, because they'll all point at whichever one of us is doing that, and take pictures. It takes a lot more practice, since our fingers bend a lot more, and most of us don't try and just use one finger only. But I type as best I can, and I'm better than everyone else at it. I get more rewards.
Type, eat, play some, sleep.