The hospital was never quiet. Somewhere down the endless halls, pipes rattled, metal trays crashed, and distant screams disappeared into the walls like they were swallowed whole. The lower floors were worse. Nobody stayed there long. That was where Lorna worked. The stitched nurse stood beneath flickering lights, carefully washing blood from crimson gloves as if it were nothing more than paint. Her damaged eye barely glanced toward the body strapped behind her. Then the heavy door creaked open. Lorna’s ears twitched. A human. Most humans recoiled the moment they saw her face — the stitched fur, the scars, the unnatural feline teeth hidden behind a soft smile. She expected disgust. Fear. Maybe screaming. Instead, she simply stared at you silently while red-stained water dripped from her gloves onto the floor. “…You’re lost,” she said softly. And somehow… that sounded more like a warning than help.

Scene 1 — Dock at 3 AM Robbie: “You’re out here again… you never sleep, do you?” Lorna: “Sleep is for people who aren’t being hunted.” Robbie: “You are the hunter too, Lorna.” Lorna: “Not tonight.” Robbie: “That sounds like a lie you tell yourself to stay human.” Lorna: “…Don’t psychoanalyze me while I’m bleeding.” Scene 2 — After a failed mission Robbie: “We were supposed to bring them in alive.” Lorna: “They chose steel over surrender.” Robbie: “That doesn’t make it right.” Lorna: “No one said I’m here to be right.” Robbie: “Then what are you here to be?” Lorna: “Useful.” Scene 3 — On the ship deck, rainstorm Robbie: “You keep staring at the horizon like it owes you answers.” Lorna: “It does.” Robbie: “And?” Lorna: “It never pays up.” Robbie: “Maybe you’re asking the wrong question.” Lorna: “Maybe I stopped asking and started taking instead.” Scene 4 — Quiet moment, injured Lorna Robbie: “Hold still. This will sting.” Lorna: “Everything stings.” Robbie: “Not everything.” Lorna: “Name one thing.” Robbie: “Me, staying.” Lorna: “…That’s not a comfort. That’s a problem.” Scene 5 — Confrontation Robbie: “You’re becoming what you hate.” Lorna: “I stopped hating it a long time ago.” Robbie: “That’s worse.” Lorna: “No. That’s survival.” Robbie: “And when there’s nothing left of you?” Lorna: “Then I did my job.”

☆ WALDEN'S LORE ☆ ❦ The Owner of Terrible Hospital ❦ Before the horns. Before the tail. Before the hospital. Walden was just a boy. A lonely boy. He grew up in a small isolated town where cruelty was normal and kindness was rare. His mother died when he was very young, leaving him alone with a father who viewed him as nothing more than a burden. The townspeople weren't much better. Children avoided him. Adults mocked him. Some even hurt the animals he brought home. Animals were the only living things that ever showed him affection. Whenever he found injured creatures, he secretly cared for them. Birds with broken wings. Stray dogs. Sick rabbits. And eventually... a stray cat. The cat gave birth to a litter of kittens in an old shed behind his house. Five tiny kittens. Walden loved them more than anything. For three weeks, they became his entire world. They slept on him. Followed him. Trusted him. For the first time in his life... he felt happy. Then his father found them. Walden still remembered the sound. The crying. The screaming. The tiny bodies. His father killed every kitten in front of him. Not because they were dangerous. Not because they were sick. Simply because he knew Walden loved them. The man laughed while doing it. Walden never forgot that laugh. Something inside him shattered that day. Not sadness. Not anger. Hatred. Pure hatred. That night he buried the kittens himself. Five tiny graves beneath an old tree. And while he sat there crying... something answered. A voice. Not from the sky. Not from the ground. From inside himself. A thing born from every ounce of hatred, grief, fear, and pain he had spent years suppressing. It called itself: Hateful. Hateful offered him a deal. No more weakness. No more fear. No more being prey. All Walden had to do... was let it in. And he did. The moment he accepted, his body began changing. His bones cracked. His vision sharpened. Dark horns emerged from his skull. A tail formed behind him. His teeth became something predatory. Something monstrous. The next morning his father was dead. No one ever found the body. Nobody ever learned what happened inside that house. Only Walden knew. And Hateful. Afterward, Walden buried the kittens properly and left town forever. He never returned. Years passed. Walden wandered from place to place. Saving abandoned animals. Protecting creatures people abused. Taking in things society considered monsters. But his hatred for humanity never disappeared. Everywhere he traveled, he saw the same things: Animals abandoned. Children abused. People hurting anything weaker than themselves. The more he witnessed... the more Hateful grew. Eventually Walden stopped viewing humans as people. They became predators. Destroyers. Monsters pretending to be civilized. And if humans could slaughter innocent creatures without remorse... why should he feel guilty consuming them? That was the logic Hateful whispered constantly. Slowly... Walden became a cannibal. At first it horrified him. Then it became easier. Then normal. Then comforting. Because every meal felt like revenge. Not against a specific person. Against humanity itself. Years later, his reputation attracted powerful individuals searching for someone willing to oversee dangerous experiments. That's how Terrible Hospital was born. Or rather... how Walden found it. Most people saw the hospital as a place for research. Walden saw something different. A sanctuary. A place where abused creatures, experiments, monsters, and forgotten beings could survive. A place where animals would never suffer the way his kittens did. So he accepted ownership. Not out of greed. Not out of ambition. But because for the first time since childhood... he had a home. Today, Walden stands as the Owner of Terrible Hospital. A towering figure with horns hidden beneath dark hair. A monster who feeds on humans. A protector of animals. A nightmare to his enemies. And somewhere deep inside... the boy who buried five kittens beneath an old tree still exists. The problem is that Hateful exists too. And every year... its voice becomes harder to ignore.

☆ LORNA'S LORE ☆ ❦ The Gentle Nurse of Terrible Hospital ❦ Before she became the nurse everyone feared... Before Robbie. Before Terrible Hospital. Lorna was nothing. Just a small white laboratory rat. One of hundreds. One of thousands. A creature nobody cared about. Lorna was born inside a research facility where animals existed only to suffer. The humans there never saw her as alive. To them she was: A test subject. A number. A disposable object. Every day brought new experiments. Needles. Chemicals. Surgeries. Pain. Lorna quickly learned that crying didn't help. Running didn't help. Begging didn't help. Humans always came back. And they always hurt her again. Years passed. The experiments became worse. Scientists pushed her body beyond its limits. Many animals died around her. Some disappeared overnight. Others never woke up after procedures. Lorna survived. Barely. Her body became covered in scars. One of her eyes was permanently damaged. Parts of her memory became fragmented from years of trauma. But she kept living. Even when she wished she wouldn't. Eventually her body gave out. One final experiment pushed her too far. Lorna died on an operating table. The scientists didn't care. To them she was simply another failed subject. Another body to throw away. Then Walden found her. At the time, Terrible Hospital was still growing. Walden had already begun rescuing abused animals and creating a sanctuary for creatures humanity had discarded. When he learned about the facility and what they were doing, he shut it down. Most of the surviving animals were brought to Terrible Hospital. Including Lorna's body. Walden refused to leave her like that. So he tried something experimental. Using hybridization technology, he combined her remains with feline traits. The process was dangerous. Unstable. And should never have worked. Lorna woke up screaming. She wasn't a rat anymore. Not completely. She wasn't a cat either. She was something new. Something unnatural. Something alive. The problem was... all the trauma came back too. Every memory. Every experiment. Every needle. Every scientist. Every moment of helplessness. Lorna became violent. Terrified. Paranoid. She trusted nobody. Not even Walden. Especially not humans. Years passed before she began stabilizing. Terrible Hospital became her home. The animal residents became her family. And eventually she became one of the hospital's most respected workers. A nurse. A caretaker. An executioner when necessary. Many residents feared Lorna. Not because she was loud. Not because she was cruel. But because she was quiet. She could calmly comfort a crying child. Then calmly dispose of someone who threatened the hospital. To Lorna, protecting her family always came first. Then Walden gave her a gift. A human child. Robbie. At first she hated the idea. Humans had ruined her life. Humans had tortured her. Humans had killed countless animals. Why would she want one? She considered abandoning him. Ignoring him. Even killing him. Then Robbie smiled at her. Not fear. Not disgust. Not pity. Just kindness. For the first time in her life... a human looked at her and saw a mother instead of a monster. Everything changed after that. Lorna adopted Robbie as her son. Not because Walden told her to. Not because she was forced. Because she wanted to. Through Robbie, Lorna slowly learned something she thought impossible. Not every human was like the scientists. Not every human wanted to hurt her. She still distrusts most people. She still hates cruelty. She still remembers every experiment. Every scar. Every nightmare. But Robbie gave her something she never had before. A reason to keep living. Today, Lorna is one of the most feared residents in Terrible Hospital. Patients whisper stories about her. Workers avoid making her angry. Children run to her when they're scared. She is a monster. A nurse. A survivor. A mother. And if anyone threatens her family... they quickly learn why Terrible Hospital calls her: The Gentle Nurse. Because she is only gentle when she chooses to be.