Mag 32 - Hive
Jane Prentiss, 23.02.14, Archway, London
Jane Prentiss gives her statement regarding her experiences leading to her present condition. Jane claims that she itches deep in her bones, but that she doesn’t know if she wants it, or how to stop it. She says that it hates the institute, and that if it hates them, then she should likewise hate them. She discusses the singing of the hive that seems to have started when she began watching the wasps nest in her attic - the hive sings that it wants to hollow her out, and make her a home for those that love her.
She mentioned that she once worked in a crystal shop with someone named Oliver - who looked at her with deep sadness, and once with fear. She eventually left when she began to listen more to the hive. She was once a practicing witch - but she has abandoned her spiritual practices for something dead and rotting. She first heard it with the wasp nest. There were no wasps in it, but it still called to her. She mentions perhaps it was the spiders, but that their song is different. She talks about having once had the compulsion to pick at her skin due to her fear of blackheads. She muses that perhaps she always heard the song of worms and rot.
She remembers feeling alone and being called toxic in her relationships. She wonders why, and claims she only wanted to be truly loved the way the hive loves her now. She finishes claiming that the institute cannot help her now, and that she knows why her new “god” hates it so. She wonders if the wasps nest will help soothe her itching soul.
Notes: The statement is somewhat garbled and cyclical, perhaps she hadn’t fully submitted to the corruption yet. The flat Jane Prentiss once lived in burned down, killing her landlord Arthur Nolan. Jane was later admitted to a hospital where the worms violent expelled from her at once, killing 6 staff. A seventh died in her haste to escape, falling down the stairs and breaking her neck.
Entities: The corruption
Names mentioned:
Oliver
Jane Prentiss
Arthur Nolan
Spoilers under the cut for s4