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.

chair position. Philip, prepare sdocumentation. I'm

forward."

the research facility, each responsible

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

he finally had his

the pills developed

quotas.

his disposal, it would be easy to feed one to

untimely and disgraceful demise.

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as the door closed, Philip retreated to his

the women - their designated place whenever they returned

carefully unpacked leaves

a glass cabinet, he admired the variety of leaves he had

leaf, he would preserve it and add

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

seen the sky for the first t- a completely

move.

only saw glass panes and doctors in

an uncivilized beast, he would hold the flesh in

but he was one of the lucky ones who had been exposed to

even know what a leaf

the wall filled with

opened and Philip stepped in, his eyebrow arching slightly

brought back

"Yeah."

"Why collect these?"

something more valuable? Why leaves?

how precious these leaves could be to someone who had never seen the outside

"I really like them."

articulate and clear,

to his true self within the walls

that was the only way he

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