As I turned around to walk away I bumped into the same petite, older looking woman from earlier.
"Oh, sorry. Allison right," the woman asks with a slight smile.
"Uh, yea, but you can call me Ally if you'd like," I replied.
"My names Carol, I'm pretty much the only one that knows how to cook around here," she laughed. I joined her.  "Well, I better be going," I said.
"See you around," she waved. I turned around and started walking toward Ember's cell. I stopped and turned around to look at Carol and she was looking at me with a thought of concern but once she noticed I turned around she quickly walked off. Everyone around here is strange. I started off toward Ember's cell again.
"Alison," I heard my name get called out. I turned around to see Rick, but no Carl. Strange. He walked closer to me.
"We need to discuss your sleeping arrangements," he started off, "I've had somebody come to me with some uh, concern that you might not be safe to just go wherever you want. And after I thought about it, they were right. I can't just let you wander around and not know exactly who you are. So until you prove your trustworthy, you'll be staying in a different cell block that we have cleared out."
"Are you serious," I said raising my voice, "I haven't killed you yet, have I? I think that's proof enough."
"I just can't take risks. You'll have supervised visits outside of the cell very often, don't worry, it's just safety precautions. If we can trust you, you'll be out soon enough," Rick said standing his ground.
"Look, I respect that you want to protect your group but-" Rick cut me off.
"Then you'll have no problem following me to your new cell," Rick said walking down the platform toward two large doors. I figured that if I wanted to have my freedom back I might as well cooperate. I followed him to the other cell. Without and commotion or talking, it felt empty. I went into a cell to the right of me which was exactly like Embers except there was a tall full body mirror.
Where there people here before them?
"You wanna earn your keep? We're going on a run tomorrow, if you come and help, you'll start earning your way into our group," was the last thing Rick said before he left me alone in the silence. I sat my knife on dresser and lied on the bed, looking at the underneath of the bed above me. Suddenly everything hit me. I felt like no one wanted me in the group.
No Allison, you're strong and you deserve to be apart of something, they have you trapped in here like some time of prisoner but you are so much more than that, you belong here, and you're going to find your way back into the group.