Post by Blondie on Apr 12, 2009 5:16:49 GMT -5
In six separate states, six very different children repeatedly claim the same delusion: they were genetic experiments, part avian, part human, held for years in a laboratory; escaping years ago and living their life with five other individuals just like them - living life as the Flock.
Nobody believes them. Each is sent to numerous institutions, various psychiatrists, given endless treatments ... until, by chance, they are sent to the same pediatric psychiatric hospital ... in Death Valley, California.
Was the entire thing fabricated by the diseased minds of six individuals? Or is there a thread of truth in the tale spun by these six about to meet for the first time? Will they recognize each other?
Is there a truth to be revealed?
Time is running out - the careful threads that wove this rope are fraying. All it would take is one pull...
One of them recognizes this place - it's different, though, changed, from what they remember in their delusions. It can't possibly be the School - the School was a laboratory, and this is a psychiatric hospital.
Is it truly by chance that they were all sent to this place? Or has someone pulled that thread?
The Characters
Maximum Ride Martinez was adopted at the age of three, and has been living in New York City with her adopted family - Dr. Valencia Martinez and her daughter Ella. When the delusions started, at the age of nine, she was sent to some of the best psychiatrists in the world, but none came to an agreeable conclusion about her condition. At the age of fourteen, she was sent to the Pediatric Psychiatric Ward in Death Valley, California.
Nick Cooper began having delusions of this alternate reality when he was nine years old. He lived with a single mother in Tampa, Florida until he was three, at which time he was taken by social services and adopted by another family at ten after years of shuffling. Short on financial resources for their 'troubled' son, his adopted family sent him to different institutions until he was fourteen. He's no stranger to solitary confinement. He was sent to Death Valley after someone told the Coopers that it was a respectable institution for disturbed youth.
James Griffiths was five years old, living in Virginia, when a tragic boating accident took his sight from him. When he was nine, the delusions began, and he described in detail the illusions of his mind. When his parents could no longer handle it, they sent him to the institution in Death Valley for treatment. He is fourteen.
Monique Whitney lived in Tipisco, Arizona with her large family until she was six, at which time the delusions began. She was sent to various institutions before she ended up at the Death Valley Institution when she was eleven.
Peter and Angel Crowley lived in Maine until the divorce of their parents at the age of four and two. Angel moved across country to Kansas with her father. Soon after, the two began to have delusions of this alternate reality, and were sent to different institutions. When treatment failed, they were sent to the Death Valley school. They haven't seen each other since the divorce, and are eight and six.
Jeb Batchelder is the head child psychiatrist at the institution, and lives in a house nearby with his son, Ari, a seven year old boy.
[/center]Nobody believes them. Each is sent to numerous institutions, various psychiatrists, given endless treatments ... until, by chance, they are sent to the same pediatric psychiatric hospital ... in Death Valley, California.
Was the entire thing fabricated by the diseased minds of six individuals? Or is there a thread of truth in the tale spun by these six about to meet for the first time? Will they recognize each other?
Is there a truth to be revealed?
Time is running out - the careful threads that wove this rope are fraying. All it would take is one pull...
One of them recognizes this place - it's different, though, changed, from what they remember in their delusions. It can't possibly be the School - the School was a laboratory, and this is a psychiatric hospital.
Is it truly by chance that they were all sent to this place? Or has someone pulled that thread?
The Characters
Maximum Ride Martinez was adopted at the age of three, and has been living in New York City with her adopted family - Dr. Valencia Martinez and her daughter Ella. When the delusions started, at the age of nine, she was sent to some of the best psychiatrists in the world, but none came to an agreeable conclusion about her condition. At the age of fourteen, she was sent to the Pediatric Psychiatric Ward in Death Valley, California.
Nick Cooper began having delusions of this alternate reality when he was nine years old. He lived with a single mother in Tampa, Florida until he was three, at which time he was taken by social services and adopted by another family at ten after years of shuffling. Short on financial resources for their 'troubled' son, his adopted family sent him to different institutions until he was fourteen. He's no stranger to solitary confinement. He was sent to Death Valley after someone told the Coopers that it was a respectable institution for disturbed youth.
James Griffiths was five years old, living in Virginia, when a tragic boating accident took his sight from him. When he was nine, the delusions began, and he described in detail the illusions of his mind. When his parents could no longer handle it, they sent him to the institution in Death Valley for treatment. He is fourteen.
Monique Whitney lived in Tipisco, Arizona with her large family until she was six, at which time the delusions began. She was sent to various institutions before she ended up at the Death Valley Institution when she was eleven.
Peter and Angel Crowley lived in Maine until the divorce of their parents at the age of four and two. Angel moved across country to Kansas with her father. Soon after, the two began to have delusions of this alternate reality, and were sent to different institutions. When treatment failed, they were sent to the Death Valley school. They haven't seen each other since the divorce, and are eight and six.
Jeb Batchelder is the head child psychiatrist at the institution, and lives in a house nearby with his son, Ari, a seven year old boy.