BITES ON TEREZA'S ARMS, HUH?

"So it looks like the person Anita talked to yesterday was telling the truth that they probably wouldn't be alive without it, that's.... something......"

"It describes concerning ongoing symptoms for Lela but just the severe bites for Tereza. Can you be stabilized but failing to recover from severe bite wounds?

At some point they just stitch you up and send you home, right...?"

"Considering everything we know about the likely source of the bites, I have no idea."

"I just can't tell if it's fishy in a supernatural way or a covering for something way."

"Everything I can think of for it to be covering for seems less likely than it just being true but we can ask what the others think?" Mordred's copying down everything in these files.

And then, if only out of force of habit, he's going to look for the financial information. This shouldn't be difficult to find in a well-organized records room.

Montgomery Donovan is paying for both Tereza's and Lela Donovan's treatment.

That is approximately what he'd expected but good to confirm. Anything else interesting she's paying for?

She's a big donor to the hospital-- there's a new Donovan wing.

She's also funding their N research program!
 
 
 
 
 

"Given Lela that isn't even necessarily for horrifying reasons but I still don't like it," he says to Oswald. "Anything else you think we should look for while we're in here?"

"Any paperwork on the N research program, maybe? Distribution plans, shipment arrivals, that sort of thing."

It comes straight from the Malta warehouse once a week on Fridays. (Today is Tuesday.)

Great! Wonderful! Excellent! He loves that!

"At least we know exactly where the kids are now?"

"Odds we'd be able to swing past there without getting stopped by anyone?"

He considers this.

"...if we get stopped by anyone we tell them we're lost."

Sure enough, a nurse spots Mordred and Oswald. "Hello!" she says with faux-cheerfulness. "Are you lost?"

"Yes! Yes we are. Which direction is the exit."

The nurse points. "That-a-way. You have to be more careful!"

The good news is that the exit runs right by Room 304!

The bad news is that inside of Lela Donovan's room, visible through the window from the hall, is Montgomery Donovan and eight armed guards, and three men with guns guarding the door.

Mordred would love to listen in on that, but is somewhat less than a fan of getting shot.

Montgomery is sitting by the bed, clutching her daughter's hands.

Lela Donovan is barely conscious.

....yeah. Fair enough.

Do the guards look like they would object to them going into room 303?

They are paid to care about threats to Miss Donovan and not paid to care about random orphans.

Oswald has no idea why they're ignoring the armed guards and this is absolutely terrifying but he wants to draw attention to them even less so he follows Mordred in, absolutely convinced the guards are tracking their every move.