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.

doctors, the ones not convicted,

Coincidence?

had met their ends

falls from

retribution for the St. Aria

all this really be a

their deaths weren’t accidental, could there be a link

struck, and I grabbed my hair, trying

coincidence, right? Just a twist

karma,” Eric said, not elaborating as he got out and opened the

knew he was holding back, that some questions would remain

institution was closed down; we had to sneak in through

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as the orphanage, a place that

recent viral exploration livestream had featured this place, claiming it

arranged for a private room.” Eric’s voice was hoarse. “We hoped… he’d have it

hell on

that

walls were covered in equations, numbers – he

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