"Time to eat." The guard rattled the bars to punctuate his announcement before sliding a plate underneath the door.

Already? It was unnerving, having no sense of where I was in the day beyond the changing of the guards. They had changed another three times since Connolly had left, so it had been at least a full day.

I reached for the plate and instantly regretted it. The sight of maggots crawling on the moldy bread and rotting meat made me gag - and that was before I ...