Excerpt: Domino: Less Than Nowhere

He shook his head and smiled at me in a way that made me feel somewhat...uncomfortable. “That's not how it works here, Miss Skilil.” he paused. I don't know whether it was for effect or if his ADHD/ADD caught him for a second. “You see, we don't let escapees go back.”
“We've been trying to escape for years and you never let us.” I pointed out, starting to become confused myself. “So why would you want to keep us here once we're out?”
“You have something that we want,” he drummed his fingers on the arm of my chair and knelt down beside me. Was he going for the 'intimidation' approach? It wasn't gonna work. “And we won't let you go until we have it.”