Delinquent

She said, "the jailor told me very solemnly 'there is no time here' before he up and swallowed the rusty key to my door here, and without time, there can't really be punishment, can there? If your sentence is eternity, you can't wonder if you could've done something to get it shorter or worry that bad behavior will get you more time in prison, you just are, you just accept it, I think."

Grinning, she sits down and begins writing her theory in chalk on the floor.