Steven Denbok pulls the bookmark from the last page he left off and slides it into the spot he had just finished reading.
It was a book on famous paintings and he found it made him more tranquil.
The new images and scenery and information appeared in his minds eye, before being quickly tucked away for later.
Two large hands wrap around the bars of his jail cell.
The hands are rough, and hairy, something you would find on a biker, as opposed to a carpenter.
"Recess start's in 5, little one." a gruff voice speaks, the blackness of the cell block hides all of the face but none of the voice.
Steven listened in silence, contemplating his next words, then, without hurrying, he selects a wonderfully menacing pitch and intonation saying,
"You have a wife and child that visit you here once a month".
Silence is now heard throughout, it is late, but ears are still very much so listening.
A face and large body appear to take form behind the bars and Steven can now clearly see this man, or, this bear in man's clothing.
He is listening however and Steven takes this opportunity to speak.
"Your wife and child visit here frequently", lighting a cigarette his match illuminates the entirety of his cell, "They visit you and you'll often all sit together doing a crossword, a crossword of all damned things, and it's endearing".
Our hero leans up in his bed, and rests his pillow behind his back.
"Now listen to me good, and this is just between us gentlemen", Steven raises his voice for all to hear, "When I get out of this hole, not only will I bring terrible harm to your wife, but that, that, sweet little daughter, what is she 20? I hope she likes hot chocolates 'cause I just wanna take her to a bonfire or something, give her little kisses ya know?".
Steven runs his hand through his hair and smiles.
"You lay a hand...", the rottweiller barks, "and I will kill you in the afterlife, I will seek you out and destroy your family, I will...".
Here Steven interrupts to produce an obsenity, or action, directed towards the speakers mother.
The cell bars are now violently rattled by the enormous, possibly greek hands.
The structural intergrity of the steel bars remain strong but the hands start to drip red splotches of blood onto the floor.
Steven stands up and begins to do fifty jumping jacks.
After this brings him to a small sweat he stops.
"I hope your doctor's a fat broad geezer who's as competant as you are handsome", he says.
The cell doors open with a 'bzzt' and a metal on metal sound.
Steven, standing at the end of the cell, makes brief eye contact with the towering brute whose teeth are slightly gnashing, and proceeds to break into a short, accelerated sprint.
He throws first his left knee up into the air, chest high and with the momentum of that propelling him, slams his right knee up into the face of his victim, before he can throw his hands up to protest.
In doing this, Steven had brought the equivalent of a sledgehammer to the man's jaw, and this had made him smile.
Two uniformed men come and carry off the wounded man's motionless body as though it were a wet towel.
In the surrounding cells, sounds of cheering and hissing crashed into the jail and could be heard as far as the recreation yard, now empty save for 3 smoking guards.
As the news of the knockout passes from ear to ear, roars are shouted to a defeaning degree.
'He's dead!', yelled one.
'He ain't scrrrATCHED', another.
An old man coughs loudly, and eerily silences the now listening prison.
'I seen 'im, the kids cell is two over me', more stillness travels now, the man emits another loud, phlegmy cough.
'He killed him'.
Roars.
A shrill noise passes once, then twice, then it continues on again, 'RAPID RESPONSE TEAM 3 NORTH A2 RAPID RESPONSE TEAM 3 NORTH A2'.
Steven picks up his now half finished cigarette, considers the situation and pulls a long drag from it.
When the two guards brandished their weapons and approached the prisoner, (now lying back down, nose dug back into his book), the last words they will hear him say is, 'How'd my door pop open like that fellas? Who's protecting who?', and they will pump 50, 000 volts for 5 seconds too long into his motor system along the right side of his belly.
