Chapter 10

Rachel walked up the steps, leading to the asylum's front door. The screams were so much louder now. She walked through the door, people rushed past her, a nurse and a doctor. They were running toward the room opposite the nurse's station on the ground floor. Another piercing scream disturbed the silence and Rachel turned toward the room, opening the door when she reached it. 

"Just one more push. . . that's right Allison. . . just one more!"she heard the doctor say. She looked toward the bed, at the young girl, no more than fourteen, with her legs raised, her face a mask of pain and terror. 

"Such is the price of sin and a whore's ways. "

Rachel searched the room, to see where the voice was coming from. Behind the door,a nun, her voice stern and authoritative. 

With an almighty scream, the girl pushed one last time and the sound of a baby, its f