The Jellyfish Seal lay nearby, untouched, as she seemed uninterested in giving it more than a cursory glance.

The room fell into a hush, and Philip couldn't quite get a read on what was going through her head. He'd never been able to fully

understand her.

The woman picked up the mug of tea from the table and took a sip, a small smile playing at the corners of her lips.

"What about that girl you mentioned before? You know, Cynthia's daughter?"

"She's still alive."

The woman raised an eyebrow. If Philip had taken action, that girl shouldn't be alive, she thought.

"It seems you gave her a chance to live."

"Just killing her would've been too boring."

He wanted to turn her into livestock for experimentation, like the subjects in the observation room.

His initial intention to bring Maja back to the BK was just that.

Let her taste the sweet life of being a leader, gain her trust, and then bring her to the research facility.

Then she'd be like a lab rat, completely at their mercy.

But he had been careless. To his surprise, when presented with the position of leader, Maja hadn't been tempted. Instead, she was

fixated on how to stay side by side with lan.

Ridiculous.

When he found out she was on Forbidden Island, he stopped holding back. But Dylan and Abner's support ctoo quickly, and

with Quentin causing chaos, he failed to get his way and had to retreat, consequently blowing his cover.

The woman, still eyeing her mug, gestured dismissively, "I'm tired. You all can leave now."

Philip and Phil stood up and made their way to the door, but her voice stopped them.

a chair position. Philip, prepare sdocumentation. I'm considering putting

forward."

chairs in the research facility, each responsible for liaising with the

had been at the facility for years and had access to the core

he

freely use the pills developed by the

quotas.

all those lethal pills at his disposal, it would

untimely and disgraceful demise.

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door closed, Philip

and Phil had secured through the women - their designated place whenever they

unpacked leaves he

the variety of leaves he had

shaped leaf, he would preserve it and add

was a habit he started ten years ago. Having spent most of his life trailing behind Philip, he rarely had tto

first t- a completely foreign concept to him.

move.

at the facility, he only saw

consisted of raw meat, and like an uncivilized beast, he would hold the flesh in his hands and tear into it with each

like him at the facility, but he was one of the

still didn't even know what a leaf

at the wall filled

door opened and Philip stepped in, his eyebrow arching slightly

back

"Yeah."

"Why collect these?"

he had, why not collect something more valuable? Why

leaves could be to

"I really like them."

imitated Philip, he was articulate and clear, but when he was himself,

himself to be Phil, only reverting to his true self within the walls of the

he subconsciously imitated Philip as if that was the only way he could interact with

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