MADRIOD'S POV

Let me just say this: I was not ready for what happened today. Like, not even a little bit. You know that feeling when everything’s already falling apart, and then life decides to throw a whole piano at you? That’s exactly how it felt.

It all started with Dr. Lee pulling me aside. His face looked so serious, like he was about to tell me the world was ending or something. “Madriod,” he said, in that super calm doctor voice that’s supposed to be comforting but is actually terrifying, “I think it’s time we consider moving Elsie to a psychiatric hospital.”

I swear my brain short-circuited for a...