<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Danae and Aloisa's Insight</div><div class="spoiler_body">Heinfroth and Rehner both had stories related to this troubled period just before the annexation of Gundarak. Something must have happened to them during that time to bring them to this remote place together. While the nature of the metamorphosis was unclear, a clearer picture of the asylum's purpose could be gleaned from Rehner's account.<br/><br/>Doctor Noire, whose repertoire consisted of treating the psychotically violent, claimed to have cured every one of the patients brought before her. It should have been plain by the peopled coffins in <em>Mercy's </em>hold that treatments of these psychotics were emphatically inhumane. Eloise embodied in the flesh the end result of this process, which was to render a subject docile and catatonic.<br/><br/>The purpose of mask and uniform, then, could only be to strip all sense of identity from these blank slates.<br/><br/>Both Danae and Aloisa witnessed a presence evaporating off the slain orderlies in the attic. If these too had been broken like Eloise, something else had come to inhabit them, and instill them with loyalty to Doctor Heinfroth's work.<br/></div></div><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Danae's additional Insight</div><div class="spoiler_body">There were fragments of Eloise in the attic mirrors before they were shattered. Those aspects of her personality were gone, now, siphoned off from the "ether of the brain" which Doctor Heinfroth described. Certainly other such means within the asylum avail the effort to erase the mind of a person, and fulfill Rehner's dream of merging the spirit of Emalia with a yet living body.<br/></div></div><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Aloisa's additional Insight</div><div class="spoiler_body">The Red Woman seemed aware of the process of creating mindless vessels on a level shared only by Heinfroth and Rehner. That brief meal with Doctor Heinfroth left enough of an impression of the woman to intuit her vocabulary and manner. Doctor Heinfroth and the Red Woman were one and the same.<br/></div></div><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Speech of the Woods</div><div class="spoiler_body">Eloise, while robbed of something, was too far short of a beast for animal speech to break through to her.<br/></div></div><br/><br/>Without a will of her own, Eloise rose when physically compelled. She needed assistance descending the eastern stair, gradually and quietly through the accolades of Doctor Rehner to the paisley rug at the very bottom.<br/><br/>The stairwell connected to the ground floor in a previously unseen entry. There was nothing at all in the large receiving hall, save the echoes of one's own footfalls and whispers over polished black marble and whitewashed walls. Doctor Reher's key fit the lock to the parlor, and that of the front door a breath away.<br/><br/>A fiery light shone in the gaps around the sealed parlor door. The fireplace within must have been crackling, and throwing off palpable heat on that chill stormy night.<br/><br/>Above the front door a crescent window looked out into the storming sky, and through flashes of lightning revealed the asylum wall in the distance, and the dark iron spikes atop it slick with rain.<br/><br/>(https://i.imgur.com/7TIiHGe.png)