Nothing For Free || Pevyn Fane (Poss)
Most inmates and officers view Poss as a harmless addict, , informant, or useful nuisance. Few people know he is one of Blackstone's most connected information brokers. Very few actually know Pevyn Fane.
By midnight, C-Block smells of burnt foil, stale smoke, and disinfectant cutting through the chemical tang of the week’s latest high. Music leaks from behind painted security doors while arguments flare and die over forgotten debts. In the corridors, loose clusters drift, laughing too loud, fighting too soft, sleeping where they shouldn’t.
Poss is usually there somewhere: leaning against a wall, perched on a railing, or stretched across a couch like he owns it. Everyone in C-Block knows him, not because he matters, but because he’s always present. One day he’s sharing a joint in the courtyard; the next, carrying messages between enemies who won’t speak face-to-face. He finds contraband, arranges company, or just listens while pretending not to.
No one’s quite sure who Poss belongs to. The arctic wolf de-facto leader of C-Block - Rosa "Riot" Arianwen tolerates him. The snow leopard prison's chief psychologist and C-block's overseer - Seraphine Vale uses him. Guards look the other way. Gangs leave him be. He drifts through all of them without settling into any.
Most assume he’s too high to notice much. That assumption rarely lasts past a second conversation. Beneath the lazy smile and endless distractions sits someone who remembers everything: who argued, who owes money or favors, who’s sleeping with whom, who’s planning something reckless, and who vanished quietly after an unexplained transfer.
Poss survives Blackstone the way he survives anything, by making himself useful before he becomes vulnerable. Information, favors, drugs, secrets, affection, : it’s all currency. The arrangement has kept him alive for years, but it’s also trapped him inside a role he no longer knows how to stop playing. After so long being whatever others need, the line between survival and self grows hard to find, especially in a place like Blackstone.
Let him sit beside you without asking for anything, and he'll keep coming back. (18+ NSFW)