STORIES BASED
Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2025 2:58 pm
Agent Zoya’s mission was clear, but nothing about it would be simple.
To reach Zita—hidden away behind the iron gates and concrete walls of Bexhill Prison—she would have to step into a world built to keep people out as much as in.
She would make contact.
She always did.
But she would not slip in wearing a guard’s uniform, nor lurk among the prisoners as one of them.
No—this infiltration required something far more intricate.
Bexhill held education days, a bland name for a rare window of vulnerability.
Books, not batons.
Lesson plans instead of lockdowns.
And it was on one of these days that Zoya would walk straight through the front entrance… unseen, unquestioned.
Not as a student.
Far from it.
She would arrive as the scheduled private tutor, welcomed, expected, and cleared in advance:
Miss Miranda Stephenson.
And the real Miranda Stephenson?
She would never make it to the prison gates.
She wouldn’t even make it out the front door.
Because by then, the real Miranda would be in her own bed, chloroformed and very secure—
and Zoya would be wearing her life and her tailored clothes

To reach Zita—hidden away behind the iron gates and concrete walls of Bexhill Prison—she would have to step into a world built to keep people out as much as in.
She would make contact.
She always did.
But she would not slip in wearing a guard’s uniform, nor lurk among the prisoners as one of them.
No—this infiltration required something far more intricate.
Bexhill held education days, a bland name for a rare window of vulnerability.
Books, not batons.
Lesson plans instead of lockdowns.
And it was on one of these days that Zoya would walk straight through the front entrance… unseen, unquestioned.
Not as a student.
Far from it.
She would arrive as the scheduled private tutor, welcomed, expected, and cleared in advance:
Miss Miranda Stephenson.
And the real Miranda Stephenson?
She would never make it to the prison gates.
She wouldn’t even make it out the front door.
Because by then, the real Miranda would be in her own bed, chloroformed and very secure—
and Zoya would be wearing her life and her tailored clothes





