Maja was enveloped in the warmth of these two men’s consolation when it hit her - the crucial piece of the puzzle.

She blinked, and stood up abruptly, "The seal, the jellyfish seal!"

It was something planted by Cynthia, back when she was still known as Lillian, and she had instructed Maja that should she ever

face danger, she could use it.

And danger was exactly what loomed now.

"Dylan, remember when Abner's guys blew up Summer's place? Didn't they find a seal? Get in touch with Abner and ask him to

send it over."

Dylan didn't waste a second and called Abner, who was nearby in Greenfield and promptly delivered the item himself.

It wasn't something he'd acquired in North America but had cinto his possession in Cania. Amidst the chaos at a research

base, he had sent his men to help the Sanders family look for lan.

They never found lan, but they stumbled upon this peculiarly shaped seal. His men brought it back, and now that Maja wanted it,

he had no desire to keep it.

He sat on the couch, his tone heavy with gravity, "Speaking of which, when Walter's people were with me, one of them, a bit of a

prankster, found a couple of wooden dolls, names carved into them. Those trinkets were picked up on the way to Summer's

bombing - no clue who dropped them, but they sure looked interesting."

paying much attention until the mention of their unusual shapes made her

make things like that for her. Back then, when times

her mother, not wanting to add

unbeknownst to her, Lillian had secretly crafted

tender gestures that made Maja yearn to see Lillian - the woman who had showered her with

have those

betrayal, and that whimsical fellow was among them. He's been

you

would

enough, a baby-faced man arrived, clutching two intricately

dragonfly; the other, a small wooden contraption that, upon being opened,

leaping out.

her eyelashes quivered because Cynthia had once made

among the kids, but

- a fact that never allowed her

Summer's place, a location rumored to

to the inner workings of the BK organization, but the sight of these two objects gave her a strong hunch -

for Cynthia

but her intuition was

Once Sarah leaves that house, hand them to her. If

control, she should cto her

resolve to protect her daughter, and these wooden toys, something

made by her mother - and most likely created by others within the organization - were a legacy

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