![]() ![]() ![]() “Congratulations,” Margaret said as we walked away from the director's cabin, my bag a bit lighter on my back. I was afraid my voice would crack, but I managed to shake her hand rather firmly. I nodded.īev placed the knife next to her on the chair and repacked my bag. She held the knife in front of her face and stared at me until I met her gaze. “Other behaviors, those that might endanger yourself or others, are cause for immediate expulsion, if not also police involvement.” She picked up the cigarettes and, with an almost imperceptible flick of her wrist, pitched them cleanly across the room, where they landed softly in a trash basket. “But some behaviors are not appropriate for this environment, and will not be tolerated.” “We understand that you may have come here with old ways of being, old patterns of behavior, old habits.”īev lightly tapped the cigarette pack with her index finger without looking down at it. She took out the sock that I had stuffed in the second boot, and pulled out the cigarettes, and then the knife. She took out first one hiking boot, and then the other. ![]() She took out the underwear, the socks, the rain poncho, the flashlight. Only after that has been established can we focus on the areas of your personal growth.” “What's most important to us, however, is your safety. I blushed and played with the seam on one of the couch cushions. ![]()
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