Utterly Mad

(Two should be enough.)

The poppies were in full bloom, on the colline the sang, covering the green of the hills in a red shadow of blood-like suggestion. This particular boil of Paris had seen its fair share of history. Once a hill for the most tenuousness, insidious criminals to find their end, pleading and screaming on the gallows, later the guillotine, the rocks looked for redemption, and an asylum was risen, to cure whatever was left to cure, in this city of light.
Forgotten by the wealthy, it fell into decay and rot, and eventually was forced to shut its gates, a cauldron of disease and other...more transcendent terror.

With that in mind, it seemed an unmentionable abnormality to see children, climbing the perches of the lower outer wall, smiling and laughing, as they jumped and sang, as l'école de la colline de sang
opened it's gates for the new school year. Once a place of death and madness, now a place of life and learning. That the children may steel their minds and their honor, to face the hardships of this world...


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Applause rang through the auditorium. The headmaster had given his usual, tiresome and extraordinarily boring speech to enter the year, and people had shout their joy to the world, free from this travesty. It was now that his secretary took the pedestal, to announce but one more thing.

"Quiet, quite please. Before you head out to your classrooms, be reminded again that this school takes pride in it's vast array of extracurricular activities. This afternoon in the yard, the schools clubs will introduce themselves to the first years, and those who which to change their current club. Joining a club is mandatory, so think carefully about what club you wish to join. That is all, I wish you a happy, and successful year."