First, I know it's not terribly clear in the post but I couldn't think of a way to work it into the narration in a way that wouldn't disrupt the flow, but, when Bouchard goes around the chapel for introductions, he begins at one end with Eve, then Hannah, then goes down the row and eventually circles back to the row behind them, where Giulia is sitting behind Eve (and will be her reading partner) and Maggie is behind Hannah (and will be her partner).
Second, on the layout of the hospital, I was going to have a map ready for you all, but RL has really gotten a bit messy and I haven't had the time. What I was going to do was edit the actual floor plan of Millbank Prison (the London prison on which I loosely based Mezieu) to better-fit my needs and the narrative, mostly by downsizing it slightly. I must have jinxed it by uttering the immortal words, "How hard could it be?" Turns out it wasn't terribly difficult in Photoshop, but it was rather tedious. I'll still try to get a proper map finished at some point, but, in the mean time, I'll share the map of Millbank that I've been using as a visual aide up to this point. The main differences between Mezieu and Millbank are that the former has fewer cells per ward and is only two stories tall instead of three. All four of our patient characters are housed in the Fourth Pentagon (top left) with Eve staying in Ward B, Giulia in the last cell in Ward A before Ward D, and Hannah and Lena sharing the first cell in Ward D next to Giulia's cell.
