Chapter 141

Eric hesitated for a moment but eventually nodded.

On my way to the mental institution, my body couldn’t stop shaking.

I couldn’t pinpoint the sadness, but my mind was haunted by that room, charred black.

The fire, the thick smoke, the desperate screams.

Sharing a room with Colin, I knew his back was a canvas of gruesome scars, his hands, his calves – all marred by burns.

Remnants of that devastating fire.

The pain he must have endured back then.

“The mental institution was shut down later. The director was arrested after abuses were exposed.”

On the ride there, I Googled the mental institution, uncovering a slew of horrifying scandals.

Doctors using patients for their amusement, torturing them.

Electroshock, waterboarding, suffocation, torment. Humanity’s worst magnified within those

walls.

from a heart attack in jail, the other doctors, the ones not convicted, seemed to have died off over the years.” A realization made me sit bolt upright.

Coincidence?

met their

falls from buildings, drownings…

was karmic retribution for the St. Aria Psychiatric

all this really be a coincidence?

accidental, could there be a

grabbed

had to be a coincidence, right? Just

he got out and opened

he was holding back, that some questions would remain unanswered with

mental institution was closed down; we had

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place that unsettled you

viral exploration livestream had featured this place, claiming it was haunted.

family had arranged for a private room.” Eric’s

it was hell on

pushed open that

in equations, numbers – he was calculating something.

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