She Outshines Them All (Athena and Matthew)

Athena clicked on the information Cora sent over.

Perhaps due to Cora's meticulous investigation, the data only captured events from a month before Zilvia's disappearance. Specifically, it was the last month before kindergarten closed for the holidays.

The kindergarten officially closed for the holiday on Advent Sunday.

The documents Cora sent were arranged in reverse chronological order, starting with what happened at the kindergarten on December 31.

"At half past 2 in the afternoon on December 31, Nellie Lambert the honorary chairwoman of Rose Academy in Osceiton, visited Rose Academy privately with her assistant, without any official personnel or media coverage.

She spent an hour touring the middle school, followed by another hour in the elementary school, and arrived at the kindergarten at half past four. The visit was very low-key. Aside from the principal and a few teachers, no one knew who she was. Throughout the visit, she wore sunglasses, which she even kept on indoors.

She toured the various classrooms and facilities without attracting the children's attention, and there were no unexpected or strange occurrences.

Some teachers recalled that she didn't seem well, appearing somewhat dazed, but she was polite and spoke appropriately, leaving a good impression on the staff.

At five, Nellie had dinner in the kindergarten cafeteria with the head of the kindergarten.

Since the kindergarten was holding an Advent Sunday celebration that evening, Nellie accepted the invitation to stay and watch the performance.

After dinner, the head of the kindergarten and the teachers were busy preparing for the event, while Nellie took a stroll around the kindergarten with her assistant until she arrived at the playground shortly before the performance, sitting front and center. The event began at half past six.

Because Catherine and Zilvia hadn't informed their family about the Advent Sunday celebration in advance, and Zilvia was not fond of discussing kindergarten activities at home, no one from the Donovan family attended.

Zilvia's performance was the sixth on the program.

She recited a poem.

Nellie praised Zilvia briefly, and nothing more came of their interaction.

The head of the kindergarten noted that Nellie removed her sunglasses during the performance, revealing her blank stare, as if she hadn't slept well or was unwell. She frequently checked her phone and sometimes lowered her head to stare into space, appearing troubled.

Overall, the event was lively and bustling, but nothing particularly noteworthy occurred.

At exactly 8 in the evening, the performance concluded.

quickly presented awards to the winning students, including Zilvia, before hurrying

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day, Cora clearly

and the teachers and parents of that time could hardly recall the details, only

the report lacked sufficient

must have been Zilvia's first encounter

seems that Nellie and Zilvia didn't interact much and that

two had any

how did these

of information and studied them

researching for over ten minutes, she locked the two pages in a

occurred at the kindergarten, like children arguing and fighting, a collective cold among the kids, and parents comparing their children, all of which

her review, Athena noticed that Zilvia excelled in kindergarten, never caused trouble, and was exceptionally quiet and low-key.

seemed reluctant to play with others, often choosing to read alone,

on her computer, Athena clicked the "X" in the upper right corner and searched for Nellie online for the

information about Nellie on the

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she said, "Let's stop here for now. Continuing could alert her and

the clock. It was already

down her computer, and went to wash up

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