The others finally stop trying to speak to him.
The first few days, he feels relief at not having to face them, knowing he is the reason for their imprisonment. No doubt Marcello would have handled things differently had he not still been with them, had he abandoned them - surely Marcello's expectation - or been cast out of the group.
Relief quickly gives way to despair. He may have refused to speak, been unable to meet their eyes, but at least he had known he was still one of them, however undeserving he might be.
He's alone again, just as he was at the Abbey, though at least on Purgatory Island he's surrounded by people just as miserable and wretched as he.
The bitterest irony is that he knows the others would welcome him, if he dared leave his self-imposed isolation.
But he still doesn't know how to face them.
Written for 30 Tortures. Session #19 - false arrest
