Axel watched as he joined the line to go through the gate. When he finally entered the building, he disappeared. Axel turned his head and stared out the window at the tall stone walls surrounding the grounds of the hospital. If they weren’t so big, he might have thought that it was beautiful. It reminded him of the castle back in there. He missed it sometimes, though it had been a long time since he had visited. He wondered why the people of this world seemed so obsessed with castles.

The hospital itself looked like something out of a fairy tale. There was a grand double door that led into...