DOLT

‘Er what? You want to know about the ‘Dark Place’? Yeah thats what some of us call this nuthouse - its official ladida name is the ‘Nights Asylum’ but if ya know what went on ‘ere, you’d be lookin’ for somethin more appropriate. The Dark Place does us just fine.

See, this ere is a perfect example of the sort of stuff that goes on in this hell hole. Here I am sittin’ ‘ere on my chair right, and I am talking into mid air. Loike, an I don’t even know why but I am gettin this compulsion to chat about this place and I have found from my experiences that sometimes you just gotta let things happen.

Well lets see, I am the caretaker, my name is Dolt and I am on my lunch break. I’ve worked here it seems for an eternity and with the way this place works and the way everythin’ bends, I bet a lot more time has passed than I think.

You see, this place ain’t normal - I mean trust me, it is pretty damn far from normal. Things happen here and things twist loike, your mind makes things change. You could be walkin down a part of the asylum and you might find yourself walkin through a door and boom, yer in the middle of some messed up forest. I saw things there dar that made Dolt lose his lunch. And you needs to know, I thought I’d seen everythin. This sorta thing has happened to me quite a few times but it don’t happen all the time or nuffin but the point is, the place ain’t normal. Reality bends or something, it kinda hard to describe.

Den theres the patients right and really, we have one hell of a bunch I’ll tell ya. They seem to ave come from every corner of the world and a proper bunch of nutters they is. Most of them really dangerous too - and many of em don’t even look it. And most of them are really strange. Take this girl Alexia for instance right? She looked sweet and all, just a normal teen girl but the thing is, not only does she go a bit wacko at night but whenever you are near here, you always get the feelin somethin is watchin you. Somethin bad. And really, since most things you’d think are pretty screwy are normal here. When I say something feels bad, really, you don’t wants to thinks about it.

Its this place, it takes all the worst of whats inside you and actually absorbs it into the asylum. Since most of the peeps that come here are gone in the noggin anyway it just makes it all der worse. Maybe its alive and maybe it feeds on them, who knows. But that brings me onto the staff.

Now Dolt right, he make be the caretaker, but he ain’t ‘staff’. The staff are the nurses and doctors and orderlies that look after the patient and they give em a very special level of care if you take my drift. If you asks me, its obvious that they ain’t anywhere near what they look to be. Some of the nurses may look ‘uman right, but um, trust me, truth is they are anything BUT.

Why are they here and what they doin? Dolt don’t know and even if Dolt did, he knows all about the three monkeys or something. Anyways I have told way too much already and my break is almost over. I need to go clean up cell 239... I use my mop a lot in this place because, well it gets hella messy. We also ave another new arrival soon - more meat for the dark place. From where they come, how they come and why? I already tolds you, I dunno. Now go away hallucination thing’.

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