Editing Playing a Part 15.1

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{{infobox chapter
| work       = Pale
| book       = [[Playing a Part]]
| number     = 15.1
| dateposted =30 October 2021 
| link       = [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/10/30/playing-a-part-15-1/ {{PAGENAME}}]
| previous   =[[Fall Out 14.z]] 
| next       =[[Playing a Part 15.2]] 
}}
'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is the first chapter of [[Playing the Part]].

==Plot==
[[Verona Hayward|Verona]] and her [[Brett Hayward|dad]] are putting away the shopping when [[David Williams|David]], her child support worker, shows up. They talk casually for a bit whilst then he speaks with Brent alone about, when he returns he asks her questions about her life.

Verona asks if she can visit [[Avery Kelly|Avery]] and her [[Sylvia Hayward|mom]] in [[Thunder Bay]], Brett reluctantly agrees and they proceed to get into an argument about him wrecking her art supplies. David talks to them both privately before leaving. After Verona says she doesn’t want to eat in the dinning room with him and he storms off in a huff.

She leaves and meets up with [[Peckersnot]], giving him some art in return for his help. She sees [[Matthew Moss|Matthew]] and [[Edith James|Edith]] arguing, Edith wants to go back to the way things were whilst Matthew is angry at being betrayed and her killing [[John Stiles|John]].

As Verona walks past she pours out some ice tea and splashes it on Edith, when she tries to follow the two of them Verona threatens to bind her but Matthew stops her.

Matthew is going to the [[Kennet Undercity|Undercity]] to respond to a tip off [[Miss]] gave him, the two of them proceed together.

Verona rings [[Lucy Ellingson|Lucy]] asking for information about the hospital and she goes to find her mom.

Whilst they wait for Lucy’s reply Verona talks to Matthew about his home situation and convinces him to stay in [[Louise Bayer|Louise's]] spare bedroom for a while.

[[Lucy Ellingson|Lucy]] replies that they lost a bunch of staff but have the same number of patients, they are also keeping one wing closed.

[[Tashlit]] arrives and they all head off to the [[Kennet Undercity|Undercity]]. Verona stops a random couple and asks about the hospital, he tells them the price for fixing someone up is enslavement.

They reach the hospital and Tashlit kicks the door down. As they proceed through the hospital horribly disfigured patients slam against sealed doors. They negotiate the traps and climb the staircase when three patents attack them and after a short fight they manage to subdue them.

They reach the ward on the third floor and find thirty people including orderlies, patients and nurses. A their head is [[The Resident]], the knotted person that runs the hospital, twig thin and with unnaturally long arms.

Verona opens a jar to remove the air and uses runes in her mask to be able to breath, knocking the breath out of everyone, then throws down another spell card to destroy the lights. They fight and Verona manages to bind the fetus ghoul in salt, she then uses [[Dish]] to turn her damaged hand in a porcelain claw. She grabs The Resident, he offers to compromise but she refuses.

She attempts to force the Other that's enslaving people to release everyone, leave Kennet or be killed. [[Matthew Moss|Matthew]] uses his doom to kill her saying her death shouldn’t be on Verona’s shoulders.

==Major events==

*[[Verona Hayward|Verona]] and her [[Brett Hayward|dad]] are visited by [[David Williams]], her socail worker
*Matthew has an arguement with [[Edith James|Edith]], Verona offers moral support
*[[Matthew Moss|Matthew]], [[Verona Hayward|Verona]], [[Tashlit]] and [[Peckersnot]] visit the [[Kennet Undercity|Undercity]] and deal with [[The Resident]]

==Characters==
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===Kennet trio===

*[[Verona]]
*[[Lucy]]

===Kennet Others===

*[[Peckersnot]]
*[[Tashlit]]
*[[Matthew Moss|Matthew]]
*[[Edith James|Edith]]

===Innocents===

*[[Brett Hayward|Brett Hayward]]
*[[David Williams]]

===Under City Residents/[[Dark Reflections]]===

*The Resident
*Fetus eating ghoul
*Vice principal

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