you want to tell her?”
Martin lowered his head.
“I’m sorry.
Ralitsa did not write for him.
It was not
her job to invent someone else’s excuse.
But it helped him with the first sentence.
“I know I have no right to expect you to answer me.”
After that, the words began to come on their own.
She watched him write slowly.
Erases.
It starts again.
He didn’t promise him that his sister would forgive him.
She didn’t tell him that everything would be fine.
She just told him:
“The real excuse is not to make the other person feel better. It is to take responsibility without demanding anything in return.
Martin kimna.
This incident did not immediately reach the other prisoners.
But nothing in prison remains a secret for long.
Gradually, people began to talk about it in different ways.
Not like the “little one”.
