Cissy gave a small shrug of her shoulders. "Someone would just break them again." She imagined that was what had happened the first time around. And as for keeping them safe... "No one really cares what happens to us in here, Joel." She smiled a little as she said it, though the smile was a sad one because she knew that what she said was true.
"I try to imagine what my papa is doing." He was her favorite person in the whole entire world, and yet she doubted he ever really gave her a passing thought anymore. If he did, he certainly didn't show it. He never wrote, never visited, not that this was an easy place to visit.
His statement, however, was a curious one, and she furrowed her brow slightly as she glanced over at the man beside her. "Did someone do something to you?" Most people didn't think about that sort of thing unless they'd been there themselves.