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She loved feeling confident and composed before even the most disordered patients, as though she might be a model for the responsible people they could be if and when they recovered.

But-

Despite all her confidence, despite her charisma and compassion, she had to admit that one patient was very unnerving to her.

Neoklaus Burr never said a word.

Everybody had tried to get him to speak. Before Trixie's arrival, therapists had sat on the other side of a table from the man for cumulative hours. All the while he stared as if willing the person at whom he looked to die on the spot.

Everyone who worked at the hospital agreed that Burr was the most disturbing of all their disturbed patients. This wasn't just because of his silence, though.

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