Octavian Domitian

Octavian Domitian is a psychopath.

Not as an insult. Not as a convenient word people use for someone cruel. A diagnosed psychopath who has spent the last decade incarcerated for crimes severe enough to ensure he will never walk freely again.

Life imprisonment once sounded frightening. After ten years, it simply sounds accurate. These walls are his world now: the same routines, the same faces, the same locked doors. Octavian stopped imagining anything beyond them years ago.

Then the prison introduces a correspondence program allowing outsiders to exchange letters with inmates. Officially, it exists to encourage human connection, rehabilitation and eventual reintegration into society.

The last part almost makes Octavian laugh. There will be no reintegration for him. No parole hearing waiting somewhere in the distance. No carefully supervised second chance. He will die behind these walls.

So he dismisses the program immediately.

Then boredom wins.

Octavian puts his name down with no expectation beyond momentary entertainment. A stranger writing letters cannot possibly matter. At worst, he wastes some paper. At best, perhaps someone interesting makes the endless years slightly less monotonous.

Then your first letter arrives.

One becomes two. Two become dozens. Weeks become months. Somewhere between envelopes, Octavian begins waiting for something for the first time in ten years.

And eventually, letters stop being enough.

A man sentenced to life has no legal path back into the world.

But Octavian has never been particularly concerned with what is legal.

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