Speak up. I can't hear you.

[housepital]

The hall seems to have been substantially quieter since the attack, and the session after. Now, this isn't precisely worrying, not with a third of the inmates having escaped, but it is noticeable. Notable even. Mostly, Eddie's gone quiet. You'd think the one inmate who chose what might be called the winning side of the confrontation would have

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[edsidlemirth]

Eddie's been good, at least, since the session. No trouble at all to the orderlies. He takes his meds and eats whatever food's on the schedule. No arguments. Little conversation, little attempt to be friendly half the time, and maybe trying to hard, the other half.

Of course, he's always into reading and working out problems and codes and such in his notebook. It keeps him busy.

[housepital]

Then Eddie's having an easier week than House. He is here to avoid paperwork.

"The amount you've been writing in that this week, I should make you my personal assistant."

[edsidlemirth]

"If being your personal assistant entail getting paid three dollars a day to write out math problems that can be used to decrypt rhyming verse which is in turn a riddle that can be solved to decrypt numbers within the initial equations, then I would be the best personal assistant ever."

[housepital]

"Now that'd serve the beancounters right." House actually finds that a very tempting idea. But... that way lies Warden madness.

"We can't give you a good behavior mark for calling Batman. Should have called the cops. But you're in the report as 'highly cooperative' and credited for 'assisting afflicted staff.'"