Miss. Miss Wormwood continues your treatment with a purge.

⚀⚅ - 1 = 6, Miss.

"Drink deeper," Miss Wormwood says. The draught is bitter but restorative. You feel some energy return. "Finish the cup. There, Morgan. Now, another. You'll need all the fluids you can get."

"Thank you, Miss Wormwood," you say.

The green snakes she has in place of hair do a little rippling wave. "Let me know when it starts working," she says.

"Oh, I think it's working," you say. "I'm starting to feel better."

Miss Wormwood smiles through her thin, pale lips. "It's not working yet," she says.

"Oh?"

Ten minutes later, you're flushed, sweat beading on your brow, uncomfortable twinges and ominous gurgling sounds coming from inside your belly.

"Miss Wormwood!" you cry out.

She scoops you up in her steel-cord arms and sits you on the pot, lifting the tail of your infirmary gown just in time.

"Owwwwhhhhhh!" you moan as the purge begins. Every fluid in your body is leaking out. Tears, sweat, and snot streak your face. Perspiration runs down your back, from between your breasts, and from under your arms. Your bowels convulse and release their contents.

After an interminable time which can't have been more than an hour, Miss Wormwood judges you sufficiently purged. She lays you upon an examination table for a sponge bath and rinse, humming tunelessly as she soaps and sponges you.

"There there, Morgan," she says. "It's better this way. After so many of the Phallopods had had you, you need an inside and out cleanse."

You're not sure you would agree but you're too wrung-out to protest.

Miss Wormwood gives you a cup -- just water this time, you're sure -- and bundles you back into bed.

"So what happened with them?" you ask. "The Cockwalkers? The Leontes students? What happened?"

"Hush," Miss Wormwood says, placing a finger to your lips. "Rest."

Your last thoughts are of Fay and of the Warden, Barbara Torch. You sleep. Your dreams are uneasy.

You have +2 Ambition, +0 Bravery, +2 Cunning, +0 Diligence.
You have 5 XP and may gain a character advancement when ready.
Your FRIENDs are Fay, Galahad the Phallopod, and the Warden of Leontes. The Warden owes you a FAVOR.

You have a CONSEQUENCE (Purged/Exhausted): -1 to Move rolls.

Roll +BRAVERY(-1) (+0 Bravery, -1 CONSEQUENCE) to GET OUT OF THE INFIRMARY.