"It's 12:23, time to make my rounds!" A large woman in a clean white coat said to her new intern. "I'll introduce you to the patents."

"OK." The young intern boy replied as he put his coat on and joined his boss.

"This is patent #4563108 his name is Paul, he has been here for eleven months. He mostly just sits in a corner and looks everywhere." The buxom woman told the intern.

He just nodded. He wasn't really into this new job yet.

"And this one over here..."

Max tuned out from what his boss was saying. He thought it would be more exiting working at an asylum. He was about to zone out of everything; when something caught his eye on the other side of the hall.

It was one of the most beautiful girls he had ever seen. She had fair skin, long, and I mean LONG black hair. The thing that stood out to him most though, were her eyes. They were the most stunning eyes he had ever seen in his life; they had a black outer ring, and a white inner ring around her pupil.

"Hey, doc! Who's that?" He asked, pointing to the girl.

The woman looked in the direction that he was pointing and chuckled. "Oh, her? She's pretty, isn't she? She is patent #4242564. She's been here for eight years.

She is a natural born genius, or, was. When she was ten, she was doing stuff that a collage student would do. Her parents thought it was incredible.

They were very proud of their little genius, but she always talked to herself, carried on one sided conversations. At first they thought it was just a little kid thing, but as she got older it got worse. They also noticed that she would mention names of people in the animes she watched when she wasn't looking into string theory or playing chess.

They began to worry, so one day they took her to a mental therapist. He told them that she thought these characters were real, and that they would talk to her. He also informed them that he couldn't do anything for her with this thought hard-wired into her brain. So, after lots of thought, consideration, sleepless nights and arguing, they brought her here at the age of twelve.

I've watched the young girl turn into a lady. Today is her twentieth birthday..." She sighed and got a far off look.

He just stared at the girl. She was so pretty. How could someone like her end up in an all white padded cell? It wasn't right.

He watched her as she stood up off the floor where she was sitting and look around at pointed places, as if looking at a bunch of people. Then he saw her move her lips like she was talking, but he couldn't here anything through the sound proof walls.

"Is it possible to listen to what she is saying, doc?" he asked hopefully to the nurse.

"Yes, it is. We have wire taps in the cells so we can check on them once and a while." She answered, then narrowed her eyes. "Why do you ask?"

The intern felt small under his bosses piercing gaze. "Well, uh- I- uh- I wanted to hear what- uh- I wanted to here what the girl is saying... That's all..." He trailed off, not meeting his bosses gaze.

After a few seconds of not getting an answer he looked up at her. She had a huge grin and was on the verge of laughter. She shook her head in humor as she took him to a computer at the end of the hall. She pushed a few buttons and a live feed of #4242564 came up on the screen.

The girl was standing at one end of the room with a look of deep concentration on her face. "Pawn 4 to B3." she said in a commanding voice. After a few minutes she spoke again. "Knight to G9. Check mate!" she looked over to the other side of the room and smiled, laughed and doubled over.

She straightened up and giggled a little. "Looks like I beat you, Sebastian Michaelis. If I were to be a butler, I would be one hell of a better butler than you! Hehehe..."

The intern looked away from the screen. She just won at imaginary chess. Then he heard her voice ring out, "Queen to R4."

The young intern couldn't believe how far gone her mind must be. She just won... Against an imaginary butler and she just continued as if she were in the middle of the game still. It made him a little sad. She could have been an amazing person.

She was his total opposite. She was good looking where he was, well, less good looking. She was a genius, where he was having to redo high school at the age of twenty-two. But, she had been shipped off to the loony bin before she could have a shot at life.

He looked back at the screen when something caught his eye. "What was that? I thought I saw something on her floor. Like a footprint or something. Look! There's another one!" He frantically pointed at the computer screen where he saw the intentions in the padded floor.

The nurse looked at him, and then back at the screen. She squinted for a few seconds and then her eyes got wide. "Oh my goodness.. Look over there! There are more!" She pointed with a chubby index finger to the half dozen sets of footprints, some of which were moving.

"Kid, you stay here. I'm going to get Dr. Lloyd, he needs to see this." And with that the woman took off down the hall calling for the doctor.