Doctor Matilda Franklin
Matilda Franklin, sometimes called Patricia, co-founded the Sweet Home alongside her husband Lawrence and has been treating psionic patients there ever since. A psion herself, she struggled with her abilities from a young age in a community that feared what it could not understand. Finding Lawrence gave her a partner who shared the same burden, and together they turned their personal suffering into a vocation.
She is rarely seen outside the Sweet Home compound, identifiable by her curly blond locks and the lab coat that has become her uniform. Her days are filled with therapy sessions and psionic training for patients who arrive in various states of crisis, from children dropped off by desperate parents to dangerous psions delivered by lawmen who cannot safely contain them. Where Lawrence handles the persuasion and public-facing work, Matilda anchors the daily operations that keep the institution running.
The two of them built the Sweet Home from nothing: personal savings, found land, and the conviction that psions in crisis needed a place that would help them rather than cage them. The staff has grown to ten or fifteen caretakers, all psions themselves, and the institution operates as a nonprofit sustained by donations. Matilda rarely discusses her own abilities, focusing instead on the patients who need help mastering theirs.
She is rarely seen outside the Sweet Home compound, identifiable by her curly blond locks and the lab coat that has become her uniform. Her days are filled with therapy sessions and psionic training for patients who arrive in various states of crisis, from children dropped off by desperate parents to dangerous psions delivered by lawmen who cannot safely contain them. Where Lawrence handles the persuasion and public-facing work, Matilda anchors the daily operations that keep the institution running.
The two of them built the Sweet Home from nothing: personal savings, found land, and the conviction that psions in crisis needed a place that would help them rather than cage them. The staff has grown to ten or fifteen caretakers, all psions themselves, and the institution operates as a nonprofit sustained by donations. Matilda rarely discusses her own abilities, focusing instead on the patients who need help mastering theirs.
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