“Hold your head high,” Ella says. “Carry yourself like you run the place. Don’t back down from anybody. The way you look, with your pretty white-girl hair and your pretty white-girl face, you’re never going to be invisible in here. Not after what you did on the outside. So own it. Someone gets in your face, you cut a bitch. You understand me? I can and will protect you, but I could get shanked tomorrow. And then where will you be?”
