Today during outside time I met Tereza like she told me to, behind the chapel. At first I wasn’t sure that she was going to show, I waited twenty minutes and was on the cusp of deciding she’d just blown me off when she appeared from around the corner, looking skittish.

Me. Hi, I wasn’t sure that-

Tereza. Look, we don’t have much time, I’m not sure if anyone saw us come back here. So just shut up and listen to me. Nurse Gunderson doesn’t prepare the syringes herself, except in special cases like when they double dose someone. Most of the syringes are sent presealed from the company that manufactures the virus for the prison system. They keep them locked up in a special cabinet in the med building.

Me. Okay, but how does that-

Tereza. Shut up and listen, I said! She’s lazy, she has an aide that takes the syringes out for everyone’s boosters and lays them out for her. The aide is a guy who works in the med building, his name is Trevor. I don’t know how he does it, but he can make it so you don’t get sick for a week. He probably swaps the live virus syringes with saline ones before he gives them to Gunderson. He’s the guy you want to talk to.

Me. How do I talk to him? What do I say?

Tereza. I’m getting to that. Just find him and tell him you’re “interested in feeling better.” He’ll know what you mean. You’ll have to work out the rest with him. He leaves before dinner, so you’ll have to find a way to get a hold of him during outside time.

Me. Thanks, Tereza.

Tereza. Don’t thank me. If you get caught, you didn’t hear this from me. Go now. We need to leave apart so it doesn’t look like we were talking.

I left. So that’s what she told me. I didn’t have time after we talked to go find Trevor, but I’m going to try tomorrow.

Thinking about this for a minute, I probably shouldn’t have written what Tereza told me down. It makes this paper record even more of a liability if they ever took it. I’ll have to find someplace to hide it in my room. There’s a place under the bottom drawer of the desk – when you pull out the bottom drawer you can set stuff on the floor and put the drawer back in. That seems the best place.