So many hours, so many days, looping those same four letters over and over: that strange and terrifying word, the word that confined her here for over ten years. And, ultimately, the word that helped her escape. In the lower half of one wall, she has traced the word so many times in such enormous script—LOVE, each letter the size of a child—and gouged so deeply into the stone that the O has formed a tunnel, and she has gotten out.
