Choosing the Right Desire

<p>The corridors echo with laughter that never belonged and every spiral leads not forward but inward.<br>Somewhere in the black-and-white static of old security tapes there's a girl with no face-<br>-hood up hands trembling eyes that were once hers spiraling out of reason.<br>Camelia walked into a campus with dreams. She left with something else.<br>Before the silence there were screams. Before the screams whispers. And before those? Just... orientation day.<br>All she wanted was a future. What she got was a choice. And when that choice finally looked back at her-<br>-it smiled.<br>This isn't a story about right or wrong. It's about the right desire.<br>And how choosing it breaks you beautifully.</p>