Violet Don submitted her discharge papers a week later, and Adriel River couldn't stop her, because she fulfilled all the health standards needed to leave, pretending to be well. They stared blankly at her medical records, which showed that she seemed to have recovered.
This was the part Adriel found most troubling; she was like a perfect patient. The doctors couldn't find any faults — she took her medicine when she was supposed to, and she recovered when she was expected to.
But this was exactly what was most fearsome, because it meant that Violet Don had deeply suppressed all her thoughts and feelings, and then put on a facade of wellness, which was even more heartbreaking.
Adriel drove Violet out of the hospital that day and called Noah Bates. Watching Violet walk away from the hospital entrance, he told Old Noah, "Old Noah, she has left."