@moralslefttodecay liked the starter call. 

There was no more room available for his words to settle within Lana’s absent mind, still sore and seemingly lost after being gifted with the rough touch of electricity in a box. Despite feeling like she had been sent drifting a thousand miles away from reality, the woman’s brain hadn’t lost its prodigious ability to hear and register all that occurred around her — a curse heightened by Jude’s erroneous concept of proper humane treatment. Was that Father Thomas trying to make her listen? She couldn’t tell, yet focusing her attention entirely on him seemed like the right thing to do if only to avoid being whipped on account of ignoring a superior. 

 "I —— didn’t bring this on myself, Father.“