title: Elana
author: Edwards, Ted
description: The blindfolds were left on even when the aircraft had landed. While they were taxiing, someone leaned across her; she heard the sound of the blind on the window being pulleddown. Since she couldn't see out, she presumed that that was so that others couldn't seein. One of the girls was crying; she could hear the muffled sobs; probably 665, theblonde. From what she'd managed to gather at Correction Parades and in the odd snatches ofconversation she'd overheard, 665 had been a difficult case. Certainly she'd been up onthe dais with the blonde she-devil haranguing her often enough before she was put over theblock for a punishment even more severe than the last. Then, one evening she hadn't beenpunished in front of them: she'd been sentenced to a week in 'the hole', whatever thatwas. When she reappeared, she'd been a quite different person: one who cried a lot andnever appeared on that dais again.