Loretta’s lover, Hamara “Hurricane Staxxx” Stacker, is also a prisoner, a warrior, and a Black woman. She killed, they loved her better, and she hated them more deeply.” Her success, she knew, legitimized something in their minds. “Often it seemed that they wanted to align themselves with her. “In some sick irony, the deadlier she proved herself to be, the fewer precautions the men and women who shuffled her between performances took with her,” Adjei-Brenyah writes. But even as she continues to fight, she recognizes the transitory nature of that adoration. The incarcerated only exist for the fans’ amusement and entertainment, and when Loretta ultimately prevails, she is both adored and feared. And the more gruesome her death, the better the show for its bloodthirsty viewers and CAPE’s corporate sponsors. Matched against Melancholia Bishop, who has been “conquering souls” for three years, Loretta is expected to die. When Loretta Thurwar enters the ring, she is an underdog. But there is no more harrowing sound than a crowd loudly demanding all the carnage their money can buy.
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