Hell At Cell 18 (Open)

[Flora Selene]

Flora sat in her filthy cell, and sighed to herself in exasperation. She hated being in the Asylum and was still trying to plot her escape. Why had the orphanage sent her here? What was so unusually wrong with her that she'd be sent here? She didn't seem to find anything wrong with herself, but her opinion wasn't valid.

These learned men and women were here to cure her. Cure her of what? These girls that had been locked up much longer than her had nothing of any sort wrong with them. Each day Flora seen the lacerations upon the fragile girls, and tried to sleep at nights when cried and screams bellowed throughout the establishment.

Flora twiddled her fingers and stared at the peeling wallpaper. Flora shuddered violently for a brief moment, and felt a new presence form. Looking back behind her, and all around, she found no trace of movement, or sounds. The distant cries and whimpers of the other girls made her sad. He mood quickly turned to fear as the figure appeared amongst the shadows. Tightly grasping her shift in her hands, she watched the figure approach slowly into the gaslight.

Flora bit her lip nervously, knowing now who the person was. "How dare you ignore me, fool!" River screamed at her. Flora tried to shut her out again, only to find River appear in a hallucination. She panicked, and moved the the opposite end of her already small cell. Flora began to rock herself back and forth, and began to scream as the shadow figure began to approach her.

((I got bored and felt like starting a new thread. If anyone wants to join, feel free. ))

[Annette Belinda Estherdge]

Annette was doing her rounds for the very first time. She came to a cell with a terrified girl. Indeed, she was crazy. Annette smiled as sweetly as she could and opened the cell. "Why hello, you little rat. What are we doing today?" She said politely, but with an edge.

She stared at the girl, her eyes glowing at the possibility of another torture. There was something about the rat that made her want to crush her little spirits. She still seemed to have some. Annette licked her lips, waiting for the girl to show any sign of fear, which she wanted.

[Flora Selene]

Flora heard footsteps echoing closer and closer. She began to whimper quietly to herself. Finally, a woman appeared. She had not seen her before today. Must be a new nurse she reckoned. Flora held her tongue for a moment, watching in fear as River continued to approach her. Flora screamed again, and she buried her eyes in her shift.

Flora's voice turned into River's. The nurse knew not that Flora had schizophrenia and multiple personality disorder. "Look what we have here darlings," Flora said in River's deadly voice. "Looks like we've got another learned woman." She giggled manically. She felt the woman's gaze up her, and she couldn't help but smile.

[Annette Belinda Estherdge]

The girl seemed tormented. Good she liked that. Little wench should be afraid. Then she seemed to change. Her voice had a deadly tone and her eyes seemed to sparkle with a maniacle gleams. Annette laughed at her remark and stepped forward into her cell. Annette had always been strong, picked the girl up by her hair and held her up close. "Lets take a look at you, girl." She said, smiling.

"Pretty one, eh?" She said, smiling venemously.
She dropped her and turned around, ready to leave the rat to her missery.

[Flora Selene]

Flora watched the woman approach her. She had picked her up by her hair, and Flora hissed. The nurse inspected her for a moment, and then let her fall to the cell floor. The nurse began to turn away, and Flora quickly got up.

Her voice continued in River's. "You cause me no fear. I am not a mad girl, and never was. You," she paused for a moment, "are the mad one." Flora moved closer to the woman to stare her in the eyes.

She began chanting in an unknown tongue to anyone but herself. "Dos zhal rei, lu' udos zhal ku'lam. Dosst yorn nin zhah naubol drill natha reflection d' udosst wun l' distance. Uoi'nota ulu dos!"

Her mood changed to normal, and Flora began to speak in her normal voice.
"What happened?" Flora said innocently. She had no idea what happened, but she knew something would have happened as the woman's face expressed disgust. She bit her lip nervously, and waited for the woman to speak. Flora stepped back from her, and grasped her white shift tightly.

[Annette Belinda Estherdge]

Annette heard her, stopping on her heels and turning around. How dare she?! She was the one who spoke the non-sense. One moment she had been a frightened little pest, and then a bug she knew she had to squish quickly.

The girl began to chant in some non sensical tongue. It made her want to laugh. What did she think she'd gain from that? Nothing. That was right. Annette wasnt afraid of a crazy girl. They made her as scared as water did. Harmless little wench.

Annette saw the change in the girls face. The innocence drown back, the colour in her cheecks become brighter, but in fear. Annette could smell it. She came close to the girl, and gently carassed her cheeck, smiling softly, sweetly. "Oh, my Darling girl..." she muttered to her, and then her face became as hard as a rock.

She pulled her hand back and then forward with force. The impact echoing in the wards. The whimpering girls all went silent. "All of you be quiet and get back to your own business', you fucking wretches!" She shouted.

Annette walked to the edge of the cell, then turned to the rat. "You, what's your name?" She asked emotionlesly. It was more of an order.

[Flora Selene]

Flora began to speak innocently, and in her calm and quiet voice. "You may see me as a mad girl, but there is not a thing wrong with me. This is a mistake, a huge mistake. I swear, I am not meant to be here...." She trailed off. The woman's face held a rough and hard look, that Flora couldn't shake from her mind. Still grasping her white shift, her mood changed to fear once again.

As the woman's hand touched her cheek, she shuddered in fear. Her heart stopped briefly, wondering what she would do to her. What was she capable of? Flora thought to herself. She thought it best to try to behave, in hopes of one day being free of this god forsaken place.

Flora could hear the other girls whimpering, but Flora didn't dare to move. There she stood, vulnerable as she knew it. Flora was asked her name, but she didn't answer at first. She paid more attention to the woman's posture and aura then she did to the words she had uttered.

[Annette Belinda Estherdge]

"Huh, you are pathetic. Just a few moments ago, you could have said anything and wouldnt have cared for the consequences." Annette said, smirking.

She couldn't beleive the girl's pathetic attempt to tell her she wasnt crazy. Aschizophreniac huh' she thought, raising her eye brows. She believed to have read about her in the files. Maybe the girl would have convinced her otherwise, but now, she had no chance.

"Oh, what now, sweetheart?" she said gently, "Cats got your tongue? A moment ago you were so bold."

Annette step forward and took the girl in her arms. She pressed her face to the girl's collar bone, and exhaled. Her lips carressed the girls skin up to her ear and spoke in her cool, suductive voice. "Oh, the things i have stored for you. Flora.."
Annette pulled away and made her way out of the cell, smiling to her herlself, not bothering o even look at Flora's expression. She was sure she was terrified.

In a steady pace, she made her way to find Gypsin.

[Flora Selene]

Flora bit her lip in utter fear. Her body began to tremble. She knew she had no chance to prove herself sane. She knew that this horrid place was her forever home. This place was her hell, her nightmare. These people, were here to make it worse, and she couldn't deny the fear she held. Her mother had taught her to be submissive and meek, but she was nothing to these people. She was nothing but a crazy girl. Not a human... not a being. Just an animal....

When the woman pressed her face to Flora's collar bone, her heart began to race, and the panic began to slowly set in. Flora was shaking when the woman stepped back from her. What possibly would she have in store for her? The woman locked her cell closed once again, and Flora fell to the floor as the woman walked away smiling to herself.

Where was she going? What was going to happen to her? Flora pondered the worst, and began to rock herself back and forth, watching all the scenarios come to place in her head. My god, she thought to herself. She wasn't crazy, she was petrified. What could possibly be her plans? She closed her eyes for a moment, and listened to the other girls talking in the cells nearby.

Drowning out the voices, Flora feared the moment when the woman would return.

[Annaliese Ermelinda Greunewald]

Annaliese creeped into the cell, glancing at the girl frozen on the floor. She was pretty girl, but seemed miserable, and beauty was always ruined by misery. She had heard the entire encounter between Ms.Estherdge and her, and she knew it was really her fault.

She kneeled beside the girl and put a hand lightly on her shoulder, waiting for her to look up, or have areaction.

[Flora Selene]

Flora felt a hand touch her shoulder. She jumped slightly, thinking it was the nurse that she had encountered only moments ago. Flora lifted her eyes to the figure kneeling beside her, she hadn't known how she got in her cell, but she knew that if they should find her, they would surely do something. It was an inmate.
Flora didn't know what to say to the girl who had come to stay with her, instead, she waited for her to speak.

[Annaliese Ermelinda Greunewald]

Annaliese smiled understandingly at the girl. She had startled her. "Thy're all hard on you. On everyone." She said.

The girl had lovely lips, but a face that seemed completely down. She wished she could do something to help the girl.

[Flora Selene]

"They would have me dead soon, I reckon." She said, staring at the girl with sad eyes. She couldn't help her feelings. She heard what the nurse had said to her. The words echoed through her body and left her cold. She closed her eyes before opening them.

"What a place for girls to be. Such horrid place. I cannot understand why they have no been caught. They are all horrid, every one of them. Make our lives nothing but hell."

[Annaliese Ermelinda Greunewald]

The girl seemed so disturbed by her encounter. It saddened Annaliese, who had always been very sensative to other people's emotions. She wished she knew how to help her, make her smile. But she was helpless here.

"No one will kill you. No one. That I can promise you." Annaliese said soflty, frowning at the girls next remark, "It is quite strange. Yet I think everyone who works here has had some unhapy upbringing, just like many of us in here."

She suddenly lost herself in thought. "We're not that different." Annaliese murmured absently.
She realized what she just had said, snappin back to reality, warily biting her lip. As if that statement would make her feel any better!

[Flora Selene]

"Have you not seen the nurse's face? Her attitude, her aura! My God. She's planning something, something horrid. I can't even fathom the situation. If only you could feel as I do now, but then again, I wish not this on anyone. All I can do is wait. Wait until that dreaded moment for her return."

Flora stared off into space for a few moments, sighing deeply. "I see your frustration. I'm helpless. There isn't a shred of hope for me. You darling, must be careful not to be caught. Hide whatever madness you achieve whilst being here. Be safe. Watch your words. Speak only when spoken to. Aye, pity I could not have taken my own advice when I needed it most. I advise you not to take too many trips out of your cell. For one of these days, you will be caught and it will give them a reason to punish."