Ch.17: my secret place (Pur's POV)
holding a couple of books in my hand, I walked up to my cell mate. "hey red, I'm out for a while can you…" I didn't got the chance to finish my question as he answered with a "like always buddy." So I nodded and made my way to the back of the asylum, I stole the keys of the back door (why do we even have a back door?) to the asylum. I opened the door and ran to the woods where my secret place was, it was small, but it was my place, a place where I hid for the people of earth when I first came here, all it had where a couple of shelves with books, a snack stash, a bed and an irken computer, but that was enough if you where me. I opened the elevator I installed inside the tree to get to my place, which in reality was just a tree house but hey, you don't hear me complain. I got out of the elevator when I arrived in the tree house. I placed the books I was holding onto the shelf and took an other book from it. Laying down on my (handmade) bed, I started reading. "uhm, tallest Purple." I heard suddenly. "yes computer." I responded never taking my eyes from the book pages. "you are rather long on earth now, wouldn't somebody miss you in the empire?" that got my attention. "well I have to escape from that asylum place before I think of returning to the empire, and my nice Violet is ruling in my place now, together with Red's cousin Maroon. So I think I have all the time of the world, at least this world's time." I stated, the computer said: "ok, if you say so." There was an epic silence. The computer spoke again this time asking if he should take care of my cuts and bruises (self-inflicted of course) "yeah, you do that." I said laying the book aside and stretching out my arms so the computer could doctor me up. "ya know, you really should stop hurting yourself." He said while bandaging my wrists. "I don't think I can, I mean my life's just so fucked up, hurting myself seems like the only thing that keeps me sane." I said, not liking the topic. "well then we should prepare for an insane leader." The computer joked. "ha, ha, ha very funny computer. But all this pain will soon end, the new patient, he seems strong enough to kill Reco and free us from the misery she rained upon our lives." I said, the computer commented with something like, 'you read to many books'. It finished bandaging my wrists. "ok I guess I'll be going then, it's almost lunch, and I don't wanna be late." I picked up my book and a sack of chips, Red's favorite, and got on the elevator platform and making my way back to the hell on earth, the asylum for wayward Victorian boys. At the asylum, I locked the back door behind me and sneaked back to mine and Red's cell. When I entered the cell Red was laying on his bed, staring at the ceiling. "and ya got something sweet?" that was the first I heard of him, every time I went to my secret place I had to bring that big baby candies. "yeah, catch." I said throwing him the bag of chips. "did someone got suspicious?" I asked him. "no, only that blue friend of yours." He said stuffing his face with chips. "oh, but Mandarin is harmless, really." I said and returned to my book, the one I was reading at my secret place. "yeah he's harmless, but that rabies guy isn't, he tried to bite off my finger because he thought I was a big green vegetable." Typical, I told him to stay away from Rocco but he just wouldn't listen….. his own fault. "then stay away from him." I said and there we ended the conversation, so I could read in peace, and Red could continue to stuff himself with chips.