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.

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

forward."

each responsible for

and had access to the core members, but there was a strict nomination

for advancement. Now, he finally

could freely use the pills developed by the

quotas.

his disposal, it would be easy to feed one to Maja

untimely and disgraceful demise.

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as the door closed,

he and Phil had secured through the women - their designated

his room, carefully unpacked leaves he had collected from

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

it and

ago. Having spent most

sky for the first

move.

he only saw glass panes

meals consisted of raw meat, and like an uncivilized beast, he would hold the flesh in his hands and tear into it with each

at the facility, but he was one of the

didn't even

at the wall

his eyebrow arching slightly at the

back

"Yeah."

"Why collect these?"

something more valuable? Why leaves? Philip never

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

"I really like them."

he was articulate and clear,

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

that was the only way he could

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