She was not expecting to go back. For all she knew, her punishment—“the debt No-No has to pay to society,” Clarence told her with a look of false sympathy—was going to last forever. After all, for five weeks she had lived and worked in Q-1, the “behavior ward.” Q-1 was the cottage for residents who couldn’t care for themselves or were viewed as uncooperative. Some were even kept in cribs through the day unless a working girl like Lynnie wheeled them to the dayroom TV. Clarence and his second-shift pal, Smokes, had come in early after Lynnie was captured just to escort her to Q-1. They were the ones who’d put on the restraints—“so you won’t run off again,” Smokes said as he’d unbuckled the leather ties, eyes blank behind his thick glasses, mouth chewing his toothpick. Lynnie knew the restraints were there to put her in her place, but that didn’t stop her from squirming and howling and chomping her jaw at their hands. The humiliation hadn’t stopped with the leather ties.
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