Day 35: Departing from Town
The sun was beginning to get lower in the cloudy sky, and while many patients in the town were just beginning to truly savor the small taste of freedom, nurses and orderlies were already rounding up their charges and having them march back to the buses. Even if the patients could have hidden and stayed, the shops wouldn't have been open for long; business owners were sweeping their collective front steps and heading over to turn their signs from OPEN to CLOSED in a ritual that they repeated every day.
Of course, there was only one day of the week that the patients of Landel's Institute got to enjoy the routines of the townspeople, and right now was the end of it. The nurses tried to console despondent or grumpy patients with promises of a next time, but to everyone who knew the true nature of the asylum, the sounds of the buses opening their doors and revving up their engines might have just as well been the tolls of a very ominous bell.
They could only hope that the same set of events from last time didn't repeat itself...
[ OOC: Same drill as before: Three posts for the three different buses. You can put your character in whichever one you like, but please try to keep the amount of people in each one equal. Thanks! ]
Of course, there was only one day of the week that the patients of Landel's Institute got to enjoy the routines of the townspeople, and right now was the end of it. The nurses tried to console despondent or grumpy patients with promises of a next time, but to everyone who knew the true nature of the asylum, the sounds of the buses opening their doors and revving up their engines might have just as well been the tolls of a very ominous bell.
They could only hope that the same set of events from last time didn't repeat itself...
[ OOC: Same drill as before: Three posts for the three different buses. You can put your character in whichever one you like, but please try to keep the amount of people in each one equal. Thanks! ]