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

Coincidence?

had met their

from

it was karmic retribution for the St. Aria Psychiatric Center’s sickos.”

really be a coincidence?

there be

I grabbed

a coincidence, right? Just a

always believed in karma,” Eric said, not elaborating as he

holding back, that some questions would remain unanswered with

we had

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place that unsettled you

recent viral exploration livestream had featured this place, claiming it

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

was hell on

open that door

covered in equations, numbers – he was

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