With white walls and iron balls, this underfunded prison prettied up into a 'Sanitorium' is nothing but a coffin. A very large tomb for those within to rot away as the years go by. the year is irrelevant at this point, dormancy and lack of stimuli confiding Michael within his mind. That is until the nurses usher him out of his room one day. Loomis was against it, of course, but the board of staff thought, due to Michael's near catatonic state as well as good behavior, that having him in an actual social room would be good... And there was a new patient joining them all.
It wouldn't hurt to see what happens, would it? Loomis thought it would, damning them and ranting over how they'll bring hell down onto the other patients... Michael tuned it out, his harpy shrieks of madness being nothing more than white noise as he is sat down by the staff. His blue eyes soon catch sight of another young man... One he's never seen before.
He's seen nearly every face in the last fourteen years, nearing twenty years old, and yet they still manage to surprise him. A new patient meant new opportunities...
So, he wonders exactly why this other man is here.