In Chapter III of The PriVILEged we go back to Matty's youth. By this time, we've been given a glimpse at what happens to Matty as an assassin for the CIA, but now I must share a bit of his backstory and explain how Matty became a CIA transvestite assassin on a mission to kill priests.
I thought the best place to begin Matty's life was with one of his visits to the State Hospital in Colorado where the story begins. God knows our state is in the news so frequently for psychotic characters shooting up schools and theatres that I wanted to dig and explore more about sociopaths.
We are introduced to Matty when he is in restraints and seeing shadows on the walls. After feigning sanity, an ultra-trusting Nurse Charity would enter into Matty's life drawing blood, which led to Matty compromising her and churning a paperclip inside her wrist like butter shattering bones and ending her career. Moments earlier she'd commented to one of the psychiatrists how she liked being a psych nurse because there was "a lot less blood." I learned a great lesson from writing this chapter and that was how incredulous we are as humans.
After Matty was given a steady stream of Vitamin H, he brushed away the previous night's sleep in his eyes and saw what he'd been looking for on the wall. A friend he could trust. A friend who could care less about his diagnosis. A friend that would never leave him.
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