Editing Labyrinth (section)

===Background===
After triggering, Labyrinth was put into a [[Parahuman Asylum]] on the east coast where she met Mimi, later known as [[Burnscar]]. They formed something of a one sided attachment with Elle being used by asylum attendants to control Mimi.<ref name="11.c"/> Elle would later say that she didn't enjoy her time at the asylum.<ref name="5.10 e1">Labyrinth walked like she was in a daze, with Newter leading her along by the hand like she was a child.  It was interesting, not just to see that kind of interaction between them, but noting that her gloves looked like cloth, and that he was probably risking drugging her… unless she was immune.  A consequence of her ability?  He caught me looking, smiled and shrugged.<br/><br/>“Autistic?” I guessed.<br/><br/>He shook his head, “No, though we thought that, at first.  Seems she was a normal kid until her powers showed up.  Since then, she’s been off in her own little world, more or less.  A little worse right now, I think, after seeing me hurt.”<br/><br/>“That happens?” I asked, gesturing towards my head, unable to come up with an inoffensive and simple way of phrasing it.<br/><br/>He shrugged, “Sometimes getting powers fucks up your body,” he gestured to himself using his tail, which was still holding the paper bags, “Sometimes it fucks up your head.  Bad luck, but you deal with the cards you’re dealt.”<br/><br/>“Oh,” I replied.  I wasn’t sure how to respond.  A cold, quiet horror crept up on me.  My powers had something to do with my brain.  I could remember how crazy I’d felt right after my powers showed up, that torrent of nightmare images, signals and details from my bugs.  I still had bad dreams about it.  How close had I come to being like that permanently?<br/><br/>He grinned, “It’s cool.  She’s really fond of us, and we’re attached to her, too.  She has her lucid moments, when she’s let us know she’s cool with the status quo.  Sure, she has bad days when she’s dead to the world, but all of our powers have drawbacks, yeah?” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/hive-5-10/ Excerpt] from [[Hive 5.10]]</ref><ref name="R1">It was Labyrinth's warped viewpoint of it, her negative mental state coloring her perceptions - she hated it there and was miserable, so her frustration and anger colored her selection of what she was pulling into reality. What she was producing in Faultline's club office was the same sort of nightmare alt!asylum stuff she produced in the proper asylum. Not the actual asylum itself.<br/>Burnscar recognized the changes as very much the same as they had been back then, and realized just how unhappy Labyrinth was.<br/>What sort of real-world asylum would have discarded needles, barbed wire and broken glass everywhere? Silly. - [https://redd.it/3uaahd Comments by wildbow on Reddit]</ref> Elle was inadvertently broken out of the asylum by Faultline's crew, who were originally there to find information on the [[Dragonslayers]].<ref name="5.x e2">After Faultline had enlisted him and Newter, a job had taken them into a high security asylum.  They had been there to question someone about the Dragonslayers, a villain group that used tinker technology stolen from the most powerful and highest profile tinker in the world for petty theft and mercenary work.  Their invasion of the asylum had not gone as well as it might have, and had led to a high-tech lockdown of the facility.  Not only did it extend their mission by several hours, but it had led to issues with one of the residents, a parahuman that apparently had to be moved regularly, lest her influence over her surroundings spread beyond the confines of her cell, making her a serious problem for the staff, other residents and unwitting bystanders.<br/><br/>In the end, after dealing with the dispatched squad from the Boston Protectorate and getting the information they needed about the Dragonslayers, they had recruited the girl. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/hive-5-1/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 5]]</ref>

At some point, she underwent therapy with Faultline and a hypnotist, who helped her to construct a world other than a nightmare for the first time.<ref name="11.c e4"/>