I was actually going to offer that I may have missed you and your brother while I was in the Amazon - for your unparalleled simplicity - but now I’m not so sure.
The purpose of The Oasis, above all, is to preserve magic. We hope to take troubled Witches and L. Nats who are facing abolishment or neutralization under our wing, removing them from the society that they have been unable to function in and working with them one on one until they’re ready to give it another shot. Isolation can be immensely therapeutic. The Oasis is a last resort, after institutions like NYADA, which are similarly reformative, but education based and located within large societies. We assume that an individual coming to us for a second, third, fourth chance has already been through a program like NYADA and has been educated. We’re hoping that the Bureau and the Committee will be heavily involved in the implementation to ensure a fair and secure process. Of course, I’m more than willing to take suggestions. Your interest is appreciated.
Aww, c’mon. You know you missed us. We’re highly missable.
I like the concept. People have a right to their own lives, after all. I don’t know that I would’ve pegged you for someone who’s qualified to rehab folks who need it, at least not personally -- I’m assuming you’ll be hiring licensed professionals to actually oversee these therapeutic efforts, right?
But I have to admit -- something about this seems a little fishy to me. Are people voluntarily checking in, or are they sentenced to their stay here? Who decides how long they need to be there? Are they truly isolated, or are they socialized together? It can be incredibly jarring for someone who’s been alone for a long stretch of time, or given only minimal contact with others, to be thrust back into society at large -- the rules are different, and a lot of the time, the world is different, too. You need to make sure that what you’re doing in an effort to help isn’t actually backfiring on you to be more detrimental in the long run.
I’d talk to some of the LN on campus, and maybe some of the Witches who grew up in relative isolation, to see what’s actually “troubling” them. I’d bet that a lot of the people who are here at NYADA against their will or who are being surveilled by the Committee are people who don’t have the social skills, knowledge, or, most importantly, desire, to “function” among the world at large. Most of the time, people just want to be left alone to live their lives without us getting all up in their business.
