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A storm is blowing in, its thunderhead rolling in dark and low, lightning splaying across the sky and touching the sea.

The Hospital Superbissima is a younger institution in an older building. The hospital was constructed as a sprawling mansion and was renovated into a hospital. It is six storeys tall, made of sturdy stone, and quite cramped and dark for a hospital. Though tall windows let a great deal of light into the outer rooms, the interior spaces, such as offices and records rooms, are shadowy and confining.

Nurses walk through the hospital carrying what are recognizably vials of Nectar, like they saw with the Faletta Peaches.

Araari makes a mental note to ask Zoë what Magnificence can have as a treat.

A nurse spots Anita. "Hello, ma'am. You don't have your visitor's pass?"

" - oh, I'm sorry, I wonder where it got to?"

"We can sort that out. Who are you going to see?"

Haha fuck uh. "Oh, I'm sorry, I don't even - my sister called me and said her boyfriend was in trouble, and I can barely keep track of who she's seeing these days, but she sounded so upset, you know, and, well - Jack Grech, I think it was?"

Anita gets a sense from the nurse that she's corrupt and crooked-- she's used to taking bribes.

"All right," she says. "We can check to see if Mr. Gretch is in the patient records so I can send you to the right room?"

Araari is just going to try to shrink into the wall and pretend this isn’t happening.

"Sounds like a good first step. And if not - I might have the name wrong, I'm sorry, maybe I could just look around a bit and make sure? I'm sure I'd recognize his face if I saw him."

"Well," she says, "it's technically against the rules... if I could have a little tip, for going out of my way..."

"Of course, of course." She does in fact have money. Here is some money.

And she obtains a visitor's pass for Mr. Gretch!

You can’t just bribe a nurse??? I guess empirically you can?????????

You can bribe most people although Anita guesses if there were an exception it might be a nun or her actual sister

She thanks the nurse and looks around some more.

One of the wings of the hospital is the Donovan Wing.

Ooh.

Hmm. Rich people give money to hospitals a lot, but she supposes that if you were going to run a drug selling operation out of a hospital then a wing added with your money might end up being part of it? Maybe they should check it out?

Sure, why not, apparently they have a visitor’s pass now.

Anita is going to see if she can get a sense of where the drugs are being kept, or coming from, even though she appears to be off her blending in game today.

Araari is just going to follow Anita, Anita seems like she has a plan.

Anita tracks one of the nurses to a closet full of Nectar, then watches her collect some of it and take it somewhere else.

The nurse dilutes the Nectar with saline, then prepares to inject it in a patient.

Well, that's not creepy at all.

The nurse says, "here's a little drug we call orange juice! It'll make you lively and give you some pep. It's experimental. You can only get it in the Hospital Superbissima."

Well. That's a good trick, isn't it, selling your experimental drugs to a hospital. She wonders how complicated something like that is.

"Dr. Solazzio is working with it."