It’s an empty ware­house.

One gi­ant room.

It could be more.

So it is.

And when they drag in the girl, they don’t place her in a ware­house. They place her in a tiny room.

It’s a small, un­com­fort­able room with pol­ished white tiles, shiny un­com­fort­able metal chairs and an equally un­com­fort­able metal table.

They lock her hand­cuffs to the table, then leave.

It has the per­fect green tint of an in­ter­ro­ga­tion room. The mir­rored, one-way glass, rough ce­ment walls and grimy small white tiles en­hance the decor; the slow “drip… drip…” from a nearby leak sets the mood.

The door clanks nois­ily as you step through it.

The girl looks up at you. You tsk.

“CUT!” You yell.

The girl is star­tled and scared. She has no clue what’s go­ing on, and it’s not as if you’re about to tell her: she might break char­ac­ter–well, even more than she al­ready has.

“Next take, don’t look up.”

You storm out.

The door slams shut.

For a mo­ment, you stare at her through the mir­rored glass.

Her brown hair pools around her face, ob­scur­ing her from you. She tries to move the hair away, but be­fore they reach, her hands catch on the cuffs.

With as much drama as you can muster, you stride once more into the room.

She does­n’t look up.

You sit; not on the chair, but on the table.

She still does­n’t look up.

Promis­ing.

She talks.

“The room is darker. Danker.”

You frown. You sup­pose her words are mys­te­ri­ous enough to be dra­matic; you don’t cut scene right away, but…

“The tiles, once pol­ished, are dirt­ier than ever. The table, once shiny, now bat­tered. This chair–”

She kicks vi­o­lently, but can’t move. Her cuffs clank dully against the hard wood.

“–Well, it’s wood now.”

Your scowl deep­ens.

You de­cide to put the law down. “You are not here to state the ob­vi­ous. You are here for ques­tion­ing in the mur­der of–”

“I want a lawyer. Not a ware­house turned in­ter­ro­ga­tion room turned dun­geon.”

You smile grimly.

“You can’t al­ways get what you want,” you re­spond. You lean over into her per­sonal space.

She glares at you, and at­tempts to pull away, but the chains bind her hands fast to the stone wall.

You hiss into her ear.

“I al­ways do.”