I got my food and went to my seat in no-man’s-land. Caboose came in after me and took his seat. After a while Leroy came through the door. He was pale and weak-looking from his stay in solitary. He glanced at me and then moved on. I studied the red, crusty wound etched into his neck. After lunch we returned to our classes. I sat through another useless lesson as the boys talked and joked and wadded-up paper flew by my face. A couple of times they tossed things at the instructor. He kept scratching on the blackboard and mumbling to himself like we didn’t exist. It started raining that afternoon, so we went back into the main building after class. I went to my bunk while the others went to the rec room. I saw that the bed below me was made up with new sheets and stocked with the usual supplies. I guessed this was for the new boy. I heard someone coming and looked up to see Paco. The floorwalker cocked his eyes our way and shifted slightly.