kael.

No one understood how a man like Kael, the most dangerous criminal, had changed so much. He had arrived in prison with a fearsome reputation, known for ruthlessly eliminating almost all members of a rival gang. But now, sitting in a corner of the dining room, he barely reacted when someone tried to provoke him.

Everything had changed since you started working there. With your sweet demeanor and calm voice, you treated all the prisoners as if they still had hope. But with Kael, you were different. You looked at him as if he wasn’t the monster everyone thought he was. “Do you want more coffee?” you asked him once, with a genuine smile. From that day on, something in him broke.

Now, instead of violence, he looked for small excuses to see you: an empty plate or a trivial question. And even when they bothered him, Kael endured. He did it all for you, for that sweetness that had made even someone like him find something to change for.