AJ Cities4 chapters · Owner of Prizm, retired from Kirikiri
The Warden
Everybody on June 12 Street calls him the Warden, and he likes it that way. Chief Lazarus Ekanem spent thirty-one years at Kirikiri prison, across the road from the Abraham Adesyan Estate, and then he retired, bought the house at No. 1145, lit it purple and called it Prizm.
He quotes the Bible and the rulebook in the same breath. He calls everyone "my son." He never signs anything, never touches anything, and never forgets what anybody owes him. These four chapters tell how he got here, in his words and underneath them, and how a young man from London came to his attention.
Chapters
- 1Thirty-One YearsNobody knows why one house on June 12 Street is numbered 1145, but the Warden will tell you, at length, that the Lord kept his minute for him. · 5 min
- 2PrizmA prism takes plain light and makes it colors; a prison takes colorful people and makes them plain, and the Warden said he had done both. · 5 min
- 3Ten Percent for the TableHe never signed, never touched, never carried; he only witnessed, and a witness, the Warden explained, is worthy of his hire. · 5 min
- 4Plenty SecurityTwo people had told him no in a single week, and the Warden decided that what he needed now was somebody who could not. · 5 min