It was a peaceful morning at the institute, well, as peaceful as it could really get. Peaceful was having at least less than 5 patents running amok. Peaceful was not having to guard the spork vault so heavily. Peaceful was not having to clean a year’s worth of mess after just one night of chaos….. Like the last time.  Yup, that was peaceful.

Until exactly 10:04 AM, to the second.

That was the time the mail came, everyday. Frost knew this, because she had to be at the door without fail to accept the mail before any of the over excited patients decided it was a good idea to attack the poor poor mailman and ransack the mail.

There, she found an unexpected surprise. Wait, ok, so receiving patients by the mail wasn’t very unexpected, but it was a surprise. The counselor sighed when she saw the innocent looking cardboard box, with its little breathe holes and it’s brightly painted “This side up” and “Caution, keep fingers away from holes and crevices”. Yup, another committed.

The mailman had long since left, choosing to treasure his own insanity as long as he could.

Well, thought the silver dragon at least it’s a small one. She picked up the other mail (they have to be checked for foreign objects before being distributed.)  And the leather belt which had been used to carry the box and went back to the front office.

Handing the mail to Sinn-Ryu, she continued down the hall to find a free room for the new patient. Glancing at the box while walking, Frost rolled her eyes. “No return address, how typical- Hey! No chewing on other patients! You bunch of crazies- Oh, here it is.”

After finding the right key of the massive bunch, she dropped off the box in the padded room and let the critter see the light of day. Well, nothing came out, so she had to tip the box a little and finally, a ball of fluff rolled out.

“Ah, aren’t you the cutest little rabbit” she said, taking in the long pointed ears.

“Mmmot o abbit” came a muffled reply.

“What was that?  Ummmm” Frost checked the name written on the box. “Isis?”

The rabbit-looking thing angrily  sat up and looked at Frost.

“O aid, mmmmot o abbit!” Frost raised an eyebrow, confused, until she saw the source of the problem, it was wearing a muzzle.

“Ohhhh, well, um, heh, I think I’ll just leave that on then. It’s free-time right now, so you can go play with the others. Go make some new friends” she said, picking up the box and walking out. “’Cause you’ll be here for a looooooong time” she muttered to herself chuckling as she headed down the hall.