The guards are insane. I thought they were trying to unsettle me, which is part of their cosmic role, but now I think they _believe_ what they say about there being other worlds in a meaningless "beyond the walls", and between them, spaces without cells or guards. Doctors claim there's something wrong with my mind, while pointing at photographs of unfathomable chaos where, they say, most people live.
It's not my role, but I feel bad for them, and I can't avoid trying to talk them out of their delusion. Some, I think, are getting better.