Briarwood. They're sending me to Briarwood.
I am Tia. Mother is the Queen here. Father is her Consort. They love me. But they're sending me to Briarwood.
Yesterday, a man came to the party. I had never seen him before. He looked at me. Then he went to talk to Mother and Father. Mother started crying. She came to me. She told me I was sick. She told me I had to go to the hospital to get better. I asked her how did she know I was sick? I wasn't sick before. She said the man, who was a doctor at the hospital, told her. She called him Doctor Carvay. I asked, where was I going? She cried more. "Briarwood." She told me. "You're going to Briarwood."
Mother packed a bag for me. She took me to the Coach outside. She put me in there, then waved good-bye. Now, I sit in the Coach, across from Doctor Carvay. He still looks at me. I don't like him. I ask him if there are other sick girls at Briarwood. He tells me there are. He still looks at me. I'm afraid. I'm only a little girl, and now I'm going away from Mother and Father. I hope I get better soon. I want to go home. I sit there, thinking, for a long time while the Coach moves on.
