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.

coming up for a chair position. Philip, prepare sdocumentation.

forward."

were twenty chairs in the research facility, each

access to the core members, but there was

Now, he

freely use the pills developed by the research facility,

quotas.

his disposal, it would be

untimely and disgraceful demise.

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door closed, Philip

suite he and Phil had secured through the women - their designated

to his room, carefully unpacked leaves

glass cabinet, he admired the variety of leaves he had turned into specimens over the years.

he would preserve it and add it to his

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

five, he'd met Philip and seen the sky for the first t- a completely foreign concept to him. He was mesmerized

move.

facility, he only saw glass panes

uncivilized beast, he would hold

like him at the facility, but he was one of the lucky ones who had been exposed to the

even know what a leaf

he looked at the wall filled with

in, his eyebrow arching slightly at

brought back more

"Yeah."

"Why collect these?"

why not collect something more valuable? Why leaves? Philip never stayed at the facility

could be to

"I really like them."

he was articulate and clear,

to be Phil, only reverting to his true self

subconsciously imitated Philip as if that was the only way he

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