Out of the hospital

We've left the hospital. It wasn't safe there.


Skeptic hadn't really been lucid since he woke up. The doctors kept mentioning "possible" brain damage. Except he was stabbed, not hit on the head. But I wasn't sure. I mean, he could have fallen down and hit his head before we got there. I didn't want to take him out of the hospital before he was healed just because I was paranoid.


But yesterday, he looked more lucid, so I gave him the laptop to see what he would write. He opened up a notepad and started writing:

oak beater 

oak beaker 

oat beater 

oat beaker

I thought he was back to gibberish, but then I looked again and saw it. I saw what he was trying to tell me:


Oath breaker.


He must have seen the Stick and the Serpent on one of the doctors or nurses. I don't know what the fuck the Plague Doctor wants with him, but I got him out of there as fast as I could.


I let Tom O'Bedlam handle all the paperwork.