Roux, Madeleine - Asylum 00 - Escape from Asylum by Roux Madeleine

Author:Roux, Madeleine [Roux, Madeleine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-04-11T07:00:00+00:00

“I’m getting out of here. I have to. Nothing here is right, nothing is . . . And Patty.”

Ricky punctuated the statement with a grunt, tearing a clump of weeds out of the flower bed. The lockdown was over. They had been given supervised gardening, which now felt like a gift. He and Kay weeded side by side, and a few yards away other patients did their best to prune or plant. Even on this warm day the sky was hazy, and the same, the odd fog lingered at the fringes of the yard. It made him think of a wizard’s spell cast on the place to keep anyone from getting in or getting out.

“Work time is probably our best shot—times like this.” He was rambling, but it helped to fill the silence. “Maybe we can get someone else to help us, you know? Cause a distraction. We could make a break over the fence, and then stay off the road. It won’t be easy but we have to try. I won’t let us end up like Patty.”

Angela, who was usually glued to Patty’s side, worked on her own. Patty was just a few yards away, obediently tending to the plants. She was quiet now, no more bursting into song.

Wiping at her forehead, Kay sat back on her heels. A little smudge of mud stayed on her skin, mingling with sweat. “You know that’s not possible. You saw what they did to her. Do you really want to try and cause a fuss after that? They would just catch us and then what?”

“I know, Kay, I know, but that’s all the more reason why we have to go,” he said. Ricky dumped a handful of dandelions into a plastic bucket, shooing away a fly from his arm in irritation. “Since I’m no longer worried about sounding crazy, I’ll tell you that I had a vision last night about my family. My house was falling apart and my mom and stepfather looked like monsters. They had these awful smiles.” He twitched just thinking about it. “I think it was a sign.”

“It’s like the Scouring of the Shire,” Kay said offhandedly.

“The who-what of where?”

Ricky had no idea what transgression could possibly merit someone rolling their eyes as hard as Kay did right now.

“Oh, come on, don’t you read? Tolkien? Lord of the Rings?”

He blushed, staring at the weeds in his fist. “Does Tiger Beat count?”

“No, it most certainly does not.” But she lightened up, leaning into his shoulder and nudging him. “Anyway, it’s from a book. These little hobbit people go on a long journey away from home. At one point, the main guy has a vision of his hometown burning down, and when they get back at the end, they find everything really has gone to hell in a handbasket. I’m simplifying, but it’s an allegory anyway.”

“A what?”

At least she didn’t roll her eyes this time. “The point is you can’t ever go home, not really. There was still danger at home for the hobbits, and there’s still danger at home for you.

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