First Session // Sofia and Alana
As she wrote, Alana glanced up at Sofia, wondering if her eye line to the paper meant she was attempting to read her writing upside down. She wouldn’t have been the first patient who did so, people always had a curiosity about what doctors were writing, even if they weren’t ready to know it. Of course, it would be a process. Alana’s initial thoughts and assessments of Sofia would likely change throughout their time together, her notes would look like stepping stones across a river that took them both to the conclusion on the other side. Alana hoped that conclusion for Sofia would be relief.
Alana looked up from where she’d been writing at Sofia’s calling her lucky, lucky that she didn’t know Gotham at all, much less intimately enough to have common ground with her. “It’s amazing how different something, like a city, can be looking from the outside versus being immersed. Gotham must look bright and shiny to some, dirty and plagued to others…” she thought on it for a moment. Though, it made sense to her, what Sofia was saying. “No matter how bad it was, it sounds like Gotham might always feel like home for you…” she tilted her head slightly, watching as Sofia processed. “Do you miss it?” she asked bluntly.
Unable to read much Sofia simply started to look around the room, trying to learn what she could about the curious doctor. She had a good enough reputation to get Jack’s seal of approval and lived in a town her father loved, why was she here? Raised in the area?
When Alana started to talk again Sofia’s eyes shot to her, she hadn’t meant her comment to sound condescending. However, Alana knew little most anyone knew little about Gotham in comparison, she saw its underbelly and her father was the king of the cleanest side of it. Her straight forward question made Sofia smile a little, “Yes, I will. Right now, I don’t. Things happened there I can’t stop thinking about when I walk the streets or talk to old friends, but here its gotten better. I don’t see those things all the time.”
Pushing back in her chair Sofia stood then sat back down thinking, “How well do you know Mr. Lecter?”








