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Sadie Hanswordth Carnival Medium

Sadie Hanswordth is a medium in a wandering carnival. Lately her powers haven't been working very well, so she has had to resort to a bit of deception. She was not proud of it, but what could she do? She had to make a living somehow. If she didn't come through she would be banished from the carnival. It was all she had ever known since she was abandoned as a baby. One day a couple came in with their small child asking for a reading. Sadie did the usual grabbing the palm and shaking her head, "Hmm interesting." Then they moved on to the crystal ball. This isn't really what a medium is supposed to do, but she had to accommodate to what the carnival wanted.
The lights started blinking and the table started shaking. The parents were terrified, but the child was unamused. So they decided to poke around and found a cord. Of course they pulled it and all of sadies prompts fell to the ground and the curtain fell showing Sadies assistant making all the rucas. The parents were furious and started spreading rumors she was a fake. Sadie was told if she didn't do something soon to prove herself of her innocence she would be dispensed from the carnival. That night Sadie was searching online for places to get a good reading. She stumbles upon an old abandoned asylum tower and decides what does she have to lose. She gets dressed and heads out since it was conveniently close by only two miles through the woods.
After what felt like forever brushing through the twigs getting scratched she finally reached the tower. It was old and rundown looking of course. It didn't look exactly safe to go in, but Sadie was on a mission to prove herself. She would not let one mistake ruin her life. She opened the rickety wooden door with a heave and it made a creek sound. When it opened dust came falling from the ceiling and a couple roaches came running out over her shoes. Usually a girl would squall, but living in a carnival you see worse. Mostly rats. Anyway she went inside and it was musty and surprisingly warm despite the big holes in the stone. The first thing she saw was a long staircase with a raggedy blood colored rug going up it, with broken railing pieces covering it. She walked towards it and the door slammed behind. "It's just the wind." She told herself walking up the staircase.
When she reached the top there was a huge painting of a man dressed in regal clothing. He had a smug look on his face and was holding a scepter of some kind. "Why would this all be in an abandoned asylum tower?" She thought to herself. She pulled out her flashlight and started poking around the rooms. They were filled with cobwebs and overgrown weeds. Sadie pushed past them all, but all she found were old cells and bedrooms, nothing interesting. After a while she finally decided to meditate in a small room at the end of the hall. She was getting a strong ora from there, it must have been the man in the pictures office. He seemed to be proud of his work, seeing as he had his picture put in the staircase. "Good thing I always carry backup candles." Sadie thought. She set up her meditation circle and closed her eyes. At first everything was silent, no spiritual forces once so ever. Until suddenly a gust of wind blew out all the candles and knocked her out of her trance.
Sadie collected herself and focussed. "Who are you?" No answer. "What do you want?" No answer. Sadie huffed. "Fine be that way, you stubborn ass!" Just then she heard a loud crash. It came from the room across the hall. Sadie peeked into the room finding a broken picture of a woman. It kinda looked like Sadie if she were an older woman back in the eighteen hundreds. "What the hell." Sadie said. This place was getting creepier by the second. Sadie decided to stop meditating for a while and just walk around. She made her way back down stairs to the kitchen. It was moldy and damp. There were tables lined up against the wall and rust covered freezers. She opened them to see green slime, like algae. "That's odd." Sadie thought walking to the back room. The rest of the equipment was also rusted and the walls were rotting. "What happened here?" Sadie wondered.
She left the kitchen and went to the next room. It was locked. "What in the world." Sadie said tugging on the door. She grabbed a broken piece of railing from the stairs and broke off the knob opening the door. She smiled and entered the room. It was surprisingly not as run down as the rest of the place, but not exactly nice either. There was a small bed with white sheets, brown now due to the atmosphere. A closet with three dresses and a cloak. Sadie put on the cloak, because ever since the gust of wind struck her, she hasn't been able to shake it. She walked over to the mirror and found a note. It read, "My dearest love, I am unable to see you anymore, please forgive me." "Wow that must of sucked." Sadie thought. She came to the conclusion that the boss and a maid must of had secret love in the asylum. The room with the picture was his room and the picture must of been this girl and this is her room. "The pieces were all coming together." She thought.
She put the note in her pocket and went to the next hallway. This was where the prisoners must of been because the doors were stone and had a little window at the top. All of them looked about the same, except one. It was cleaner and organized, at least as much as it could be in this place. It had a different ora than the rest of the cells. They seemed distraught, but this one was calm somehow. Sadie searched the bunk for more clues, until she found a picture under the mattress. It was the same girl as the other picture. "This is so frustrating." She thought. Just when she is about to solve it, this happens. "Figures." She said. She flipped the picture over, it read "For my true love Winston, Love Ellie." Well Now she can put a name to a face.
Sadie thought for a moment, "Okay, so Ellie was a maid in the asylum and she was in love with one of the prisoners, who was not actually crazy. The captain however was in love with her and the note was not from him, but from Winston the prisoner. So far we have Ellie the maid, Winston the non crazy prisoner, and the boss. "This must have something to do with why this place shut down." Sadie thought. I need to find out more about the boss to connect the pieces and get different sides of the story. Sadie went back to the bosses room and set up her meditation circle. "Hello, anyone there?" Sadie called out. No answer. "Please talk to me, I need to know what happened here." Sadie tried again. Just then a little light caught her eye. It was floating out the door. "Wait!" Sadie ran after it. She was about to go downstairs when she slipped and fell, crashing into one of the other rooms. "This must be one of the guards quarters." Sadie thought judging by the schedules hung on the wall to old to read now.
Sadie opened one of the drawers finding a small necklace. It was beautiful, it was a small diamond surrounded by rubies in the shape of a heart. Next to it was a poem. "My dear sweet Ellie, may we be together forever, may I always be able to taste your sweet song and inhale your voice. My yearn for you grows, my life is yours forever." Signed General Howler. This must be the boss, but why would this be in guards room? Unless Howler was making one of the guards write poetry for him to give to Ellie secretly. This poor guard got caught up in this mess, he used such sweet words too. Sadie put on the necklace and put the note in her pocket. She has learned that the more you have to connect to someone, the better you can find the whole story. She left the room going down the steps. Then she heard a creepy raspy voice call to her. "My Ellie, you came for me." "Hello, my name is Sadie, I'm a medium, let me help you!" Sadie called out. "My Ellie." The voice said again, this time getting closer. Sadie turned around seeing Howler behind her as dead as ever. "Ahhhh" Sadie cried out tumbling down the stairs.When she awoke Howler was gone and she had a splitting headache. "What am I doing this for, it's none of my business Sadie wondered.
She got up and went to the door trying to open it, but it wouldn't budge. "Let me out!" Sadie screamed pulling on the door harder. Suddenly someone called out, "Don't leave me again Ellie." "Hello?" Sadie said still clinging to the door. "Don't leave me, please," "Okay Sadie, just calm down, you can do this." Sadie took a deep breath, letting go of the door. "Okay, I'm not leaving you, where are you?" "Come to our place." "Our place?" Sadie thought for a moment. Sadie walked to the back of the hall to the kitchen, then headed to the back room. There she saw a figure sitting alone. "Hello, are you Winston?" The figure turned around tears in his eyes. He was a handsome man, about thirty or so, with brown hair and green eyes, and a light beard. "My Ellie, you came for me." "I'm Sadie actually,Ellie was your lover right?" Winston stood there confused. "Your not Ellie?" "No I'm sorry, i'm not, but I want to help you." "You look so much like her, and your wearing her things. "I know sorry I do it to be more connected, you see I'm a medium." Winston just stared at her. Sadie pulled out the notes. "I know what happened.
You loved Ellie and she loved you. You weren't crazy, but Howler would never let you go because he loved Ellie to, so he sent guards to do his dirty work." Winston was surprised. "How do you know all this?" "I told you, it's my job." "Well, what should we do, I need to get out of here and find my Ellie, she got away, but I haven't been able to escape." "I'm so sorry to have to tell you this Winston, but Ellie is long gone now, this place is centuries old." "What?" Winston's eyes grew wide. "I'm so sorry winston, but maybe you can be united if I free you." "You really think so?" "I promise I will save you Winston." "That's exactly what Ellie said, you remind me so much of her." Sadie smiled. "Okay, so I need to know everything." "Right." Winston told Sadie all that he knew of the place, what every room had and where to find things. "So what do you know of Howler, I saw him earlier." "Stay away from him!" Winston yelled. Sadie flinched at the sudden outburst. "Sorry." Winston frowned. "It's just that, that man is pure evil, keep your distance alright." Sadie nodded in understanding. "Can you at least tell me what you know of him, so I can be prepared if I see him again, please Winston." Winston did not want Sadie near that horrible man, but he knew she needed to know. "I was sent here by wrongful means and was not able to plead my case, Howler beat me on occasion to get his frustration out because I was new. About a year after we received a new maid as a replacement." "Ellie" "Yes." "She was the most beautiful girl I had ever seen.
Apparently Howler thought the same thing because he wouldn't stop harassing her every chance he got." "She was the one who cleaned my room and We began to talk everyday after I found her crying and asked her what was wrong. I told her my story and we gradually fell in love." "Then Howler started forcing guards to give her things and she felt trapped. She wanted out of there more than I did or so it seemed." "So you devised a plan?" "Yes, I had to get her out of there, she said she'd come back for me." Winston looked down. :I'm sure there's a reason she couldn't come back." "Perhaps." "Anyway the plan was to set a fire in the kitchen where we had been meeting secretly. This would cause all the guards to go there to put it out and all the maids would gather the patients outside." "The only problem was that Howler would be there to watch all of us.
So we decided to write him a note telling him that Ellie loved him and to meet her in the kitchen. He got so worried that he ran there without thinking and Ellie ran away during the escapade." "Why didn't you go with her?" "Believe me she wanted me to, but I told her it would be to suspicious and I didn't want her to be caught." "You didn't know that Howler already knew of your love." "That's right, or else I would have followed her right then." "After the fire was put out Howler flew into a huge rage and started to kill everyone, I was the last one left. I had been hiding in the kitchen in a burned cabinet when he found me. He took all his anger and sadness out on me, then killed himself in his room with a pistol. "You couldn't escape or fight him off?" "Sweety when you live in this place it weakens you, I had no energy left from the terrible food and daily beatings. I wasn't a man anymore." "You can't just give up!" "Believe me I tried, but he was a general infused with rage and I was a sick mental patient.
The only thing I had going for me was brains, which I used to get my love of freedom." "You could have gotten away and used the plan for yourself, instead you sacrificed everything for her and she didn't even come back for you!" Sadie was crying now. "Hey it's a;right, what happened to her having a reason huh?" Winston put his hand on her shoulder. "No one deserves that, no one." Sadie said, placing her hand on to his. "You can touch me?" "Yes I am a medium afterall." Winston so full of joy without thinking wrapped his arms around her pulling her close. "It's been so long since I've felt another person's warmth, I thought I'd never feel it again." Sadie blushed. "Oh sorry!" Winston let go in realization. Sadie hugged him back. "It's okay, go ahead." Winston smiled and put his arms around her once more. "THank you for coming back for me Sadie." "Your welcome Winston, thank you for waiting." "I'd wait for you for eternity." They sat there a moment sharing their embrace.
"Okay." Winston said pulling away. "What's the plan, Ms. Medium?" "Well, we need to find a way to set all the souls free, including yours." "Alright how do we do that?" "I'm not sure." "Your not sure?" "I'm not exactly used to these kind of situations." Winston sighed. "Oh Come on I'm doing my best here considering this is my first spiritual cleaning!" "Okay, okay, Whatever you need, I'm here." "Thanks, well I need at least one object to symbolize each spirit here." "I already have a note from a guard, A picture of yours, but I forgot Howler's, all I need is something from everyone else. Who else worked or lived here?" "Okay, what do you have so far to work with, so I know who to check off?" "Well, first I found a picture of Ellie in Howlers room, Then I found a note in Ellie's room." Winston looked at the note. "Howler wrote this to trick Ellie, she didn't fall for it." "Okay then check off Howler, you and that guard." "The guard was Andrew, he was a sweet kid." 'Alright, Howler, Winston, and Andrew are done, now we need everyone else. "There were five maids including Ellie, so you need four more. And there were eight guards including Andrew, you need seven now, and there were twelve patients including me, you need eleven more. So you need twenty two objects. "That's so many!" Sadie whined. "Or maybe not." Winston realised.
"What do you mean." "Think about it, if we get things that connect all these people at once it will save time!" "That's brilliant, we can use there work schedules that they signed!" Sadie ran back to Andrews room and grabbed all the papers off the wall and brought them back. "There real hard to read, but maybe you can make something of it?" "Yes, these are the shifts of everyone here. These over here are the guards, Andrew, Todd, Christopher, Michael, Justin, John, Harold, and Billy. Over here are the maids, Joan,Ellie, Sarah,Mitchelle, and Abigail. Then the last are the patients. Don, Markess, Betty, Winston, Jasmina, Oliver, Meranda, Joe, Jeremy, Veronica, Daisy, and Oscar." "This is great, I have everyone's names and signature for their daily shifts. And Howler had to sign all of them off.
This is a little weak, but I think these extra trophies will boost the connection." Sadie placed the papers, notes and picture on a circle surrounded by candles. Shehad Winston sit beside her, while she hummed. She called out everyone's names and touched each object, while doing so. Just then all the victims appeared around them. Winston greeted them and joined the group. Sadie continued chanting until, she was sure everyone was there. Howler was nowhere to be seen however. "Winston, we need him here." "Can't we leave that bastard? He killed all of us!" Everyone else nodded in agreement. "I understand your pain, but If we don't include everyone it could cause an imbalance and ruin the whole thing." Winston scoffed. "Fine, I'll go find him." He said stepping out of the group. "No you stay here and keep it going, I'll go." "I told you I didn't want you near him!" Winston argued. "I have to do this for you, please." "Fine, just we careful." Winston said giving in. "I will, I'll be back." Sadie went to Howler's room. "Howler?" "We need your help, come with me so you can pass on." There was no answer, until Sadie got an idea. "Howler dear it's Ellie, come home with me please!"
Just then Howler came straight up to her. "My love you came for me after all." "Yes, now come on everyones waiting for us." They went back to everyone and joined the circle. Winston glared and Sadie held both their hands in reassurance. "No more fighting, time for peace. This action cause Howler to burst into tears. "I'm sorry, I just wanted you to love me back, seeing you with him hurt more than anything. "I should have just talked to you, but instead I ran away, I'm sorry." Sadie squeezed their hands. "It's not your fault, we were all scared." Winston said looking at them. There was a bright light and everyone started to pass on one at a time, until Winston and Howler were left. "Come on darling." Howler said. "You go ahead I'm right behind you." Howler smiled and faded away. Winston hugged her. "Thank you Sadie." "Ellie." Sadie said giving him a little kiss before he disappeared. Everyone was gone and Sadie was alone. She walked to the doors and opened them, just before leaving she turned around. "Goodbye." She closed the doors walking out.
It's been about three weeks since Sadie visited the asylum, since then she has left the carnival and started her own business. She looked up Ellie and discovered that after she escaped the asylum she got a nursing job, where she married a nice doctor and had three kids. One was name Winston after her fallen lover. She is still buried next to her husband. Sadie spends her days helping lost souls find redemption and mourners move on from the deaths. "I am Sadie Ellie Hanswordth Peace Medium."
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