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

forward."

research facility, each

and had access to the

he finally had

freely use the pills developed by the research

quotas.

disposal, it would be easy to feed one to Maja

untimely and disgraceful demise.

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the door closed, Philip retreated

secured through the women - their designated place whenever

to his room, carefully unpacked

leaves he had turned into specimens over the years. Every the found

would preserve it and add it

habit he started ten years ago. Having spent most of his life trailing behind

for the first t- a completely foreign concept to him. He was mesmerized and

move.

the facility, he only saw glass panes and

an uncivilized beast, he would hold the flesh in his hands and tear into it with each

many others like him at the facility, but he was one

still didn't even know what

looked at the

eyebrow arching slightly at the

back

"Yeah."

"Why collect these?"

collect something more valuable? Why leaves? Philip never stayed at

be to someone who had never seen the outside

"I really like them."

Phil imitated Philip, he was articulate and clear, but

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

that was

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