[color=CadetBlue][CENTER][h1][b]Julia Kray[/b][/h1][/CENTER][/color]
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Kai's subtle protective gestures towards her own food didn't go unnoticed by Julia, who stared at her own food while she sifted away from the little girl slightly and focused on eating her own food despite not being that hungry. She did not want anyone so see her as hostile, or a threat, or a food thief, or anything like that. She just wanted to keep her head down. But she also needed to talk to people. Human contact was a rare and welcome return to 'normalcy' and kept her own of her own head for a while, where she could distract herself from her own thoughts.

To Julia's surprise, the girl was the one who instigated the conversation, while still smiling. Julia smiled back, but it wasn't a full smile. It was the smile of somebody who was glad, grateful and pleased, but capable of neither feeling nor feigning warmth and happiness.

[color=CadetBlue]"Thank you. They're special gloves. I can't leave my cell without them, because I, um..."[/color] Julia trailed off and her smile disappeared as her expression turned to sunken-eyed haunted distress at some unknown trauma or memory. Min-Ji would have noticed this too. Julia quickly managed to fight back to a smile, albeit dimmer than the previous one, and not before her eyes had developed a noticeable sheen to them now. [color=CadetBlue]"Yours are very nice too."[/color]

Julia heard Abby's plan from the other table, and heard the woman across the table dismiss it as stupid. Julia was no professional criminal , but the plan teamed rather basic and cliché. [color=CadetBlue]"If it was that easy, somebody would have pulled it off by now,"[/color] Julia muttered in agreement with Min-Ji. But she'd started thinking about it.

Julia didn't want to be in prison. That wasn't a surprise. Nobody did. She'd turned herself in because she was scared of running. Scared of the constant threat that somebody would find her and end her life in the name of justice. And this was preferable to those few days of her life. But what she really wanted was normalcy. She wanted a job, and a social life, and possibly even a boyfriend somewhere down the line. She just wanted to go back to her simple unremarkable, ordinary life. She might be able to heal and move on by then. In here, she was stewing, and rotting, and couldn't ignore the thoughts that crossed her mind. She wanted out. She needed out.

Julia had made up her mind. She wanted to escape. She would help them in their attempt. She would follow them. Therein lay hope.

She heard Min-Ji say something about utensils, before realising that she had been watching the little girl eat her own spoon but was too distracted in her thoughts to have registered what she'd been seeing. That bought to mind something the girl had said a few seconds prior; 'Lock, I won’t eat you today.' Julia's eyes were suddenly quite bright and alive, and she started leaning closer before she remembered the boundary and backing off. [color=CadetBlue]"But you could eat the lock, right?"[/color] Julia asked the little girl, [color=CadetBlue]"If you wanted to, you could eat those cuffs straight off your wrists?"[/color]