Every prisoner inside had long since resigned themselves to their hellish fate.
The peacekeepers rarely spoke to them. Their only form of interaction was delivering beatings or tossing in a fresh unfortunate soul.
But today…
Today was different.
A young man with disheveled dark hair sat cross-legged on the bloodstained floor. The prisoners had assumed that the color was dark purple as they could not properly see it due to the dim light.
The young man with a tender, innocent face looked completely unbothered by the horror surrounding him.
With curious equally dark eyes, he leaned forward. He picked up a small twig from the floor and traced it along the smooth surface of a chained skeleton's ribs.
"Look at this, brother." Xion tapped the bones lightly, "See how the ribcage curves inward? This suggests prolonged malnourishment. The sternum is slightly concave... probably due to excessive beatings in the past. And see these marks?"