The men gave the newcomer a wide berth but she just gave them a grin- whatsa matter, boys? I don't bite. Much. - and sidled on past them. Something else she'd missed locked up in the body's head and in this godforsaken place- men. Well, not so much the men as the sex. Mary hardly managed that before and never at all with the pills and the little white room. Typhoid got out just once and seduced an attendant and it ended poorly for them both. He was found out and fired and she was shackled again by stronger medication and Mary's mortification; the latter being as irritating to deal with most of the time as the former. Even now she could hear her somewhere inside whispering warnings. Typhoid ignored it and followed her new 'friends.'
The cafeteria was, indeed, clean and cleared and surprisingly full. Typhoid didn't see any of the staff but she did see some inmates she recognized and a lot that she didn't. What she wanted to know was what they were all doing here. They were free now, weren't they? It dawned on her suddenly that maybe this Li Hua, when she said 'stay and eat' meant stay. Why would they do that? Especially with whatever caused the darkness roaming the halls.
Typhoid supposed it could have been Li Hau's influence but doubted it. Dangerous as the woman probably was, this was a room full of criminals as special as Typhoid was and any one of them could put up a good fight so surely they weren't all cowed by this woman. She hung back by the door, taking it all in, and her thoughts went back to the darkness and the monsters in the hall. She hadn't considered that there was any scope to the weirdness because, after all, everyone in here capable of weird and cruel and horrible. Maybe this wasn't just isolated to the prison like she'd first thought. Maybe this was a lot worse.
"Why aren't we leaving?" she posed the question suddenly to Li Hua's back, her voice harsh and demanding. She wasn't going to exchange imprisonment in a cell for a bigger cage.