I was in guard duty the first time I saw her. She was being dragged into the prison kicking and screaming, and her struggles were so desperate and powerful that two butch men had to carry her shoulder to shoulder to keep her under control. I confess I didn't pay her much attention, apart to take note of her as a potentially difficult inmate. In those times we were getting up to forty prisoners a day, and they all looked roughly the same: dirty, skinny and brown-skinned. The girl was shouting loudly in a language I didn't understand. A few minutes later, the guards silenced her. Either through sedation injections or simply through beating the shit out of her: I didn't give it much thought at the time.
We had been occupying the territory for several months now. There was relatively little resistance, the front lines had pretty much wiped out the whole damn place. There were a few minor rebellions and trouble-makers that had to be cleared up, but apart from that it was generally thought of as an easy job. I was only 23 at the time, but was exempted from front line military service because of an injury I had sustained to my right leg several months back. This meant that I could enjoy the perks of war (money, adventure, whores) whilst missing out on the death, violence and horror of battle.
I'll never forget the first day I spoke to her. I was on patrol in the exercise area, gun slung over shoulder, absent-mindedly watching the stream of shackled inmates trickle through the gates. She was small, only about 5'3, but wiry and sinewy. Her black hair was loose and windswept, falling about her oval face like a black halo, iridescent. Strangely, her eyes were blue-ice, which was very peculiar for one of her race. She strode up to me purposefully: her spirit had not been broken by the guards, yet. She was wearing the blue slacks and smock that all the prisoners wore, yet it was several sizes too big. I could see her two pert breasts sticking defiantly up through the thin material, and noted that they were bare underneath the fabric. I wondered if she was going knicker-less, too.
"Is there one named Azmir here? I need to know this."
Her accent was lilting and slurred, yet her English was still pretty good. I wondered where she had learnt it from.
Stubbing my cigarette out with my boot, I commented, "Why do you want to know?"
She paused, staring down at the muddy soil with her doleful brown eyes. She looked so strikingly beautiful, I simultaneously wanted to cradle her comfortingly, and fuck her senseless.
"He is dear to me."
"Your lover?"
"My brother. I am afraid he is killed."
She lifted her eyelids slowly, like curtains being drawn back before a performance. Damn, this girl was foxy, despite the grime and prison garments. Despite the colour of her skin. "Why the hell do you expect me to tell you? Even if I did know?"
She shrugged. "Because maybe even English soldiers have hearts." Her piercing eyes drew mine to them like magnets. "Maybe I was wrong. You are like dirt, just as the rest are." Without taking her gaze from mine, she spat decisively on the ground and then joined the line again.
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"Which bitch are you having tonight?"
Darren was standing at the door of my office, dangling his keys provocatively in his hand. I placed my coffee down at my desk. It was common practise that every night the guards would select any of the female inmates from the jail and basically fuck them senseless. I knew exactly who my victim would be tonight. I was already semi-hard just at the thought of her smooth skin underneath me, her struggles useless whilst I penetrated her hard and fast. Fucking bitch wouldn't dare spit at me again. Her insolence both excited and enamoured me, even though she had badly injured my pride.