Dead plants and dust
“It was all I could do not to rip her face off.”- Lucia Gardenia in reference to the Most Hallowed Sister.
Lucia walked into the abandoned retreat. In a swift moment she realized why it was that she was sent - no exiled here. Initially it was on the dangerous side of the city. Some of the sisters said that it was used as the convent immediately after the great catastrophe. From where Lucia was standing, it looked as though the catastrophe occurred here.
The post-neo-gothic structure was littered with the detrius of long lost life. Pots of flowers long dead and gone covered the floor, many of the tables, and hanging lifeless from the ceiling. There was an upturned table and chair in one corner where it looked like a squabble occured judging from the broken glass and cracked pottery concentrated in one spot of the cold floor.
The fountain in the middle of the hall had large cracks had large cracks and what appeared to be dried blood stains running down the length to the base.
“So, Lilly was looking for a cleaning service. Typical.” Lucia took shallow breaths, as the air in the retreat was pretty stale. She reckoned she needed to find a window to get some circulation moving. She walked through several archways that reached probably 15 feet up to the ceiling taking the whole scene in.
The dead plant life. The portraits adorning the walls are glaring at Lucia through all of the dust and cobwebs. Generations of the sisterhood aiming their disapproval in her general direction.
Looking at one of the portraits Lucia says, “Like I give a rats ass what you think of me, Sister Petunia.” She shoots an equally displeased look at the picture. She notices a case of dusty old books that she makes a mental note of, since she figures this place won’t have cable.
Lucia was still not sure what the purpose of her being sent here was. This “retreat” as the Most Hallowed Sister called it, was in the sketchiest part of town. The people down on their luck do their best to stay away. She knows that she’d crossed Sister Lilly, but she didn’t realize that it was this bad.