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.

forward."

were twenty chairs in the research facility, each responsible for liaising with the core

access to the core members, but there was

he finally

developed by the research facility,

quotas.

those lethal pills at his disposal, it

untimely and disgraceful demise.

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as the door closed, Philip retreated to his own

suite he and Phil had secured through the women - their designated place whenever they returned to the

carefully unpacked leaves

he admired the variety of leaves he had turned into specimens over

leaf, he would preserve it

spent most

he'd met Philip and seen the sky for the first t- a completely

move.

facility, he only saw glass

would hold the flesh in

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

many still didn't even know what a

as he looked at the wall filled

opened and Philip stepped in, his eyebrow arching slightly at the sight of

brought back

"Yeah."

"Why collect these?"

he had, why not collect something more valuable? Why leaves? Philip never stayed at

these leaves could be to someone who had never seen

"I really like them."

Philip, he was articulate and clear, but when he was himself, his reactions

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

was the only way

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