Scene 3: In and around Helena's hospital room door in St. Mungo's Janus Thickey Ward
Time: September 2108
Violet Blackthorne had stepped out this afternoon 'on personal business,' as she'd told the healers. Unfortunately, her grandfather, Helena's father, had chosen this exact time to make an appearance, not his first in the ward nor his last. A tall, elderly, still handsome aristocrat of the old school, Ignatius Blackthorne, the patriarch of the old Pureblood family, came striding down the halls with an air of entitlement until he reached his daughter's door. He looked right and left in search of some healers on whom he could vent his impatience, but, not seeing any, he went right on into Helena's room without asking permission. |