"Alice please look at all the white rabbits!" I turn to the garden and laugh at the tiny blonde girls silliness.

There weren't any white rabbits. The sanatorium didn't permit animals after a child from WARD C had a hallucination and clawed a baby bunny to death. No there were no baby bunnies. "Yes Clair they're beautiful. Don't you ever wish you could be free like them?" this is where I start wanting to believe my level of insanity was as high as my little sisters. So maybe I could see the bunnies too.

The sound of the loud speaker clicked. "Yard time is over for WARDS A and B 10-15 years. Nurses please escort any and all children back to their WARDS. Yard time for WARDS C and B 10-15 years has now started. Have a good day"

A Nurse will come take Clair away from me. She was only 6. Despite the yard times papa had slipped extra money to the Warden so Clair wouldn't be without me.

This particular hospital had been running for only 5 years. Before I was here I was housed at Ironhold Correctional Institute for Children. It is much nicer here.

The hospital has had a grand total of

195 case notes identified from a total of 6573 admissions to IronHold in the years 1854-1900. Two children aged 4 were the youngest to be admitted. Thirty-four were aged 10 or younger.

Four children admitted below the age of 10 were deemed to be suicidal and 10 of those under the age of 10 were deemed dangerous (29%). Forty-two children over the age of 11 were deemed suicidal and 73 (45%) dangerous to others.

Back then I was part of the 29% demographic. Now I take my pills like a good girl and walk around like a Zombie.

Back in my cell it's cold and dark. I am watched by cameras and a nurse comes in and tucks me in. Mandatory nap at times were at 10am for WARDS A and B 10-15 years. 11am For WARDS C and B 10-15 years. 12am for all WARDS B,C,D and E. NO children under the age of 10 may be permitted in Ward A.

I will be given a bath when I wake up. Then they will force feed us. Then electro chock therapy.

I don't like that doctor.

WARD A is where the truly dangerous go. It is for the children who have red in their file. Children like me.

I never talk to anyone but Clair. They think I'm crazy. hahaha I am crazy.

CLICK "All WARD A Nurse report to the dorm rooms. An immediate evacuation has been announced. A fire has started in the left wing of WARD B and is spreading to WARD A. I repeat EVACUATE" All our dorm doors swing open.

Did the power just turn off?

Some children went into a mad panic, screaming and cutting at their restraints. Hallucinating about monsters of fire trying t eat them. I see the fire. The bright light dances on the walls.

Nurses are rushing around sedating children, Guards taking them out by the armfuls.

They get me. I kick them and run through the hallway laughing. I skid down the hall and slam into a door. It flings open and I fall onto the gravel ground, skidding down the path. Blood and grazes on my face and hands. Linen dress covered in dirt.

I ran down the lawns as fast as I can. COME ON. Other children, Older more dangerous children have the same idea and were also running towards the mainland. Hoping there is a mainland past the huge gate... none of us have ever make it that far. Zapped by electric bracelets mandatory for "Yard Time"

Those can't stop us now. I see small children screeching as guards carry them away. I see Clair, grasping more small children. I veer left and get tackled by a guard. I yelp and scramble away snatching Clair from a frightened nurse who doesn't even notice.

I pick up 3 more children on my way to the gates.

WE WERE ALMOST THERE... Almost free.

Guards are chasing me. I push the huge black gates open and keep running. Branches attack my skin. I stumble and trip. One child was on my back, another clinging to my front. They were only small probably three, four maybe five years old.

Clair and a small boy ran next to us, holding my hands tightly.

We reach a gap in the trees. I see it. The city... Gotham.