XV | Someone Count

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We're playing
hangman

in the study room

when Elliot walks in

accompanied by
two nurses.

One dozen.

'Correct,' I reply

and fill in the blanks with her answer.

They're not
the same nurses
that followed me around.

Their uniforms

the male ones.

One of them has hazel eyes.

Elliot

sits in front of the computer,

the first patient I've seen
to switch it on.

He turns,

like he feels my gaze

on the back of his head,
but continues typing

his name

when the computer
asks for it.

It's not Elliot.

He types:

MASON.

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