You had always felt an outsider. You had many friends around the Ministry, but you always overthought everything. You thought they would always talk behind your back, and that they all hated you. Based on all of that plus a million other things, you found it to be too much and was planning to commit.

You ran down the hall, crying but trying to stop. Everyone looked as you passed by but didn’t do anything. Since your eyes were blurred because of the tears, you bumped into someone. They grabbed your shoulders to steady you.

“Hey-hey..are you ok?” Someone asked. They had a nice accent. Once the blurriness went away you saw it to be the new Cardinal, Terzo.

He grabbed your face to make you look at him, to stop you from breathing to heavily and hyperventilating. “Hey, breathe. Are you ok?”