Nancy looked up, startled. What did he mean, patients missing? Were patients getting out somehow? 

[color=Brown]"No, I don't think so. Probably just some house keeping stuff. You know, paperwork. Budgets. What do you mean missing patients?"[/color] Oh dear, there was the loose tongue the pain killers gave her. She needed to stop herself talking.

[color=Brown]"I mean, some patients have gone home, sure. But I don't think the patients are missing. Maybe hiding."[/color] Let's be honest, Nancy had sensed things were strange here. Everyone was on edge. Like... [i]everyone[/i]. More so than at a normal hospital. Some patients tended to distrust the nurses, the orderlies, the guards, sure. That was normal. But here it seemed like all of the patients held grudges against the staff.

[color=Brown]"Like a civil war is going to break out."[/color] She found herself saying out loud.

[color=Brown]"No, I mean... like... I don't know. People here just seem like they need to talk. I haven't seen any recreation events planned. Where I interned they did a karaoke night every other week. It was fun. People behaved better. The patients that are hiding would probably come out if we played some music."[/color] There was the problem. She had skipped breakfast, and had been taking so long getting her duties done she had missed her lunch break. She was on two pain killers on a totally empty stomach. She stumbled a little as her back began to relax a little more. 

[color=Brown]"I took a couple muscle relaxers for my back, they can make me really dizzy."[/color] Nancy shook her head, trying to clear it. [color=Brown]"Sorry. What was I saying?"[/color]