Act IV Scene III: The Realization of a Changed Man
For the next five years, Natalie came in once a week and she and Ghost played Go. It took about a year for them to actually start talking to each other, but once they did one could only notice how extremely different ghost was compared to the young man who had first been imprisoned. He was cleverer, and was far different from his sweet, modest personality of his younger days. There was always this smirk on his face, as though he was constantly scheming about who knows what. When he spoke, he was suave and sharp tongued. Far different from the modest young man who did not speak because he felt that he was a monster not worthy of words, he was a clever, brilliant man who did not speak because he felt no need to waste his words on others.
Yet for some reason, there was something about him that caused this random girl to keep coming back to play this game with him.
One day, Ghost offhandedly brought up the fact that he was put on trial a second time.
"A second time?" Natalie said questioningly.
"Yeah."
"You can't try someone twice for the same crime."
"What?"
"It's against the law."
Natalie placed her piece on the board and took up all of Ghost's pieces on the board. When their game ended, Ghost decided to talk to the new young guard.
"You must be new here, I don't recognize you." Ghost said, repeating his tone he used twenty years ago.
"Yeah! This is my first week here." The guard said, smiling that Ghost had actually spoken.
Ghost grabbed the guard's collar and pulled him close to the bars. "Tell your boss to let me out, today. I know that I was illegally tried a second time, and I had better be out of here by midnight."
The guard consulted his boss, but the warden said that there was nothing to be afraid of, Ghost would be fine where he was. But it had made the young guard nervous, and so he decided to call in sick from the night shift.
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