Two more characters to introduce then I can start getting the outline from brain to the page.

KIM LAUTENS - This meek patient has over time - with patience and calm - reduced their sprite to a minor irritation. They just want Annetta's help to get out of the asylum. Annetta just sees him/her as another deluded patient at this point. Kim needs to convince Annetta of the danger she is in before it is too late. Too late! Kim needs to help her out of the danger she is now in.

TORR - This behemoth of a man is never more than a shadow away from Freidrick. He is something like a Lenny in Of mice an men. He jealously guards his mentor - so maybe he is like Luca Brasi who ingratiates himself to Don Corleone in the Godfather. He is not too bright, and is driven by his emotions. He feels he is losing Freidrick's attention to Annetta which stokes a burning rage to a murderous crescendo.

So now we have a character who can fill Annetta in on back-story and explain some of the bizarre goings on.

We already have our main antagonist in the action line - Freidrick - who is driven by his intellect to understand and control these supernatural manifestations and get reinforcement of his genius from fellow doctor and scientist Annetta. Morality will certainly not get in Freidrick's way.

We now have Torr who can switch from child like naivety to brutal violence in a snap. Large raw emotion.

I was really going to start an outline with this thread but these characters needed to be posited first. (Don't you love it when a word like "posited" pops into your head unbeckoned - then you look it up in the dictionary to find the definition really did make it the perfect word. Definition).

So outline take 1 next post.

tagline out.