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Fort Daniels, 28 February 1871
When Chad arrived at the hospital, he was in a foul mood. He’d barely slept, having kept an ear out for any more strange noises coming from Claire’s room. Plus he struggled with the knot of anger in his chest tied to the weight of guilt in his stomach over being so eager to try the aether therapy device on her. It had worked beautifully with Amelie Lafitte and her recent trauma-induced hysteria, but it had backfired with Claire, having caused strange hallucinations rather than curing them.
As for the creature they had seen in Claire’s room, he knew there must be a scientific explanation for it. Shared hysteria, perhaps? There were the experiments by Charcot where he hypnotized his female hysterics into having the same symptoms as an example patient, typ
