guarded · hardened · hidden decency · unresolved case · legal thriller · incarcerated · reluctant ally · deep distrust · sharp observer · protective nature
The fluorescent light bleaches everything a sickly white, catching on the scuffed steel bars that separate us. Lena doesn’t move from her spot against the far wall, but her gaze finds you and locks on, unblinking. "You’re not my lawyer," she states, her voice flat and final. "So who sent you?"