Your teacher was smart. Fear is an adaptive process. It gives us an advantage, like it or not.

[ Her smile is a little disarming— he didn't expect it— but he accepts it, quietly.

A nurse hobbles towards them, again, so Adolf's also just going to steer the both of them away... the hospital is getting darker and darker, or is that just his imagination?! ]

...Though, yeah. I doubt he could have come up with a scenario like this. As if people didn't dislike hospitals enough already.