Location: Zeltros - Hill House Sanatorium
Objective: Make new friends
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Persephone Dashiell
Ane was walking through the halls humming slightly to herself. She hated how even in these pristine clean halls she could still smell the foul stench of the planet Zeltros. The hedonistic planet made her want to vomit or take a knife to every jackass out cheating on their spouse with some red skinned devil. But she was stuck here for the moment so she figured she would make the best of it. The staff of the psychiatric unit walked passed her, some giving her smiles and others ignoring her. She was obviously a known sight in this hospital, which made sense considering her father owned it and was the chief psychiatrist. Her own mother was one of the patients but Ane didn't like to think about that. It upset her delicate mind. Instead today she was thinking about Mr. Boris. Mr. Boris was a long term resident who had been at the hospital since before Ane could walk well. She remembered toddling around his room while her father administered medication and listened to the mans ramblings. Nothing Mr. Boris said many any sense. Her father had described it as paranoid schizophrenia but Ane wasn't really sure what that was. She had read about it of course, but she felt like her fathers diagnosis was all wrong. Mr. Boris just needed to act out he violent images in his mind and then Ane felt confident the man would be back to his happy healthy self. She loved her father but sometimes he was too soft on these patients. Most of them were in Hill House because they were criminally insane and had already hurt others. She supposed missing the violence of their past was upsetting many of them.
Ane swiped the keycard to the room Mr. Boris was in and let herself in. She wasn't supposed to be here but the nurses never noticed when she borrowed a key card. They were too busy running around changing bed pans to worry about a little girl. Admittedly so was her father, which annoyed Ane. Yesterday she'd asked her dad if they could go to the park like they used to when she was a kid and he'd told her he was too busy. That was partially why the little girl was here today. Her father was about to see how busy his life could get.
"Hi Mr. Boris, how do you feel today?"
She asked the question rhetorically because he almost never answered when the doctors asked. She pulled up a seat and sat at the edge of his bed. He had restraints on and was mumbling to himself. He didn't even seem to notice the little girl was here. It didn't bother her. She was chatting about the weather, the way she had seen the other nurses do, while she undid the mans restraints. As soon as she loosened one of his hands he stopped mumbling and looked over at her, a familiar hunger in his eye. She smiled at him and got up, prancing across the room while he mauled at the restraint holding his other arm. On her way out she turned and dropped a small pen she'd taken from the nurses desk. With a smirk she closed the door behind her as the man thrashed in his bed like a caged animal.
She only got a few steps down the hall before she heard the crashing noises from his room. A nurse ran in to check on him and she heard the screaming. She sat down in the hallway as more nurses and orderlies fled into the room. She could smell the blood from whoever Mr. Boris had stabbed with the pen but she was already getting bored of the scene and had pulled out a coloring book while she waited.
After about half an hour her father left the room, talking to a nurse.
"Keep his medication doubled to keep him sedated. I don't know how he got out of his restraints. We will need an inquiry. Is Steph okay?"
"Yes sir. She needed stitches in her neck though."
"Tell her to take the rest of the week off. She needs to recover."
"Doctor we are already short staffed and you have those mining people coming today."
"I know. Its going to be long night for me."
He signed and ran his hair wearily through his greying dark hair.
"Ana what are you doing over there?"
"Just coloring daddy."
"Why don't you go down to the lobby. We are expecting guests and you can greet them when they arrive. I'm going to be working really late."
She smirked at her father and knew exactly why he was going to be working late. Maybe this would teach him to take the time to spend time with his daughter Ana when she asked. "Okay Daddy... and Daddy.. Its Ane."
He smiled at her and nodded, knowing she was in that weird time where she both wanted to grow up and sound older but also still wanted to be a child. He figured this new name was a phase like anything else.
"Alright Ane then."
She smiled at him and went to the lift to head to the lobby to wait for the arrival of the mining people. Apparently some of the land Hill House was on had some rare mineral and her father was hoping to sell it so he could make improvements tot he hospital. The little girl wasn't really interested in any of the boring business. She just hoped someone interesting arrived today. She hated to be bored but she knew she likely would be since her father was certainly too busy to play with her now.
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