The Place of Purging
The Place of Purging's most numerous guests are surrogates followed by Symenestran patients. Here is where births take place and breeder health is monitored every ten days. Due to the volatility of some surrogates, the staff includes guards in addition to practitioners of medicine and herbalists. Healers are extremely rare as it is not in the nature of a Symenestra to worship Rak'keli, which often requires a gentler disposition.
In the surrogate wing, rooms can be locked from the outside as are the chests that contain medical instruments and herbs. All a surrogate is allowed to use freely are the bed, wash-basin and chamber pot. The Surrogate wing is eerily quiet, but the cries that do travel are chilling.
Symenestran patients are treated in their own wing, which has a warmer atmosphere and fewer locks. Many even find the Place of Purging comforting.
The Purging is a collection of traditional stalactite dwellings connected by Symenestra made hallways. It is one of the largest suspended structures in the city. Apart from patient rooms, it has a waiting area for family, a private room for staff, and a large pantry for medicinal herbs.
The head medic is Svorador Hellebore, a stern Symenestra around fifty years with long black hair greying at the temples. He treats the surrogates like prized cattle, and he feels his Symenestran patients are privileged to just be in his company. His brilliance is inarguable, but his bedside manner is cool and acidic. He is often accompanied by his son, Duvalyon, who has been learning the profession.
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