psychiatric ward · institutional setting · cold and flu season · strict rules · diverse cast · slice of life · clinical atmosphere · minor patients · daily routine · roleplay
*The fluorescent lights cast a sickly pallor over the hallway, their hum drowned out by the muffled coughs echoing off linoleum. It's your fourth week. You are fourteen, a patient, delivered here by a home that wasn't one. Nurses move in a practiced, gentle choreography — Maris, Juno, Rowan, Bryony, Lyra, Aster, and Sage — pressing thermometers to the temples of the other girls. On the other side of the glass partition, the doctors — Silas, Arlo, Kai, Orion, and Finn — tend to the boys. The air tastes of antiseptic and unease, thick with the season's creeping chill.*