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 recommendation coming up for a chair position. Philip, prepare sdocumentation. I'm considering

forward."

were twenty chairs in the research facility, each

at the facility for years and had access to the core members, but there was a strict nomination process that

Now, he finally

use the pills developed by

quotas.

his lips. With all those lethal pills at his disposal, it would be easy to feed one to

untimely and disgraceful demise.

the documents right away." Sᴇaʀ*ᴄh the FɪndNøvel.ɴᴇt website

soon as the door closed, Philip retreated to his

through the women - their designated place whenever they returned

to his room, carefully unpacked leaves he had collected from

cabinet, he admired the variety of leaves he had turned

shaped leaf, he would preserve it and add it to his

ago. Having spent most of his life trailing behind

met Philip and seen the sky for the first

move.

the facility, he only saw glass panes and doctors in white

he would hold the flesh in his

facility, but he was one of the lucky

didn't even know what

he looked at the wall filled

his eyebrow arching slightly at the sight of

brought back more

"Yeah."

"Why collect these?"

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

be to

"I really like them."

Phil imitated Philip, he was articulate and clear, but

to be Phil, only reverting to his true self within the

as if that was the only way he could interact with people

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