Jason has been following Ruby as she walks across campus. He calls out to her, his voice tinged with arrogance.
Ruby's shoulders tense. She feels a wave of panic wash over her. She can't talk. She's tongue-tied.
"I'll walk with you, Ruby. I have a class project coming up that I need to discuss with you."
Ruby freezes, frightened. The subject for Jason's college degree is Advanced Pornography. If he wants to talk to her about a class project, then surely it must be connected somehow to that, but her mind tells her she can't get involved, that she'll refuse. Her mind tells her that she must run, but her legs won't cooperate. Instinctively, she knows that if she refuses to do as Jason asks the consequences will be dire. In this terrible misogynistic world women do as men command or they're punished in ways determined by the man.
"What kind of project?"
she stews, wide-eyed, rabidly wringing her hands.