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.

students, including Zilvia, before hurrying off, with

later drove

day, Cora clearly recognized Nellie's significance, focusing her

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

report

been Zilvia's first

that Nellie and Zilvia didn't interact much and that nothing particularly

two had any further contact after

these two

out the two pages of information and studied them repeatedly, highlighting a

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

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

excelled in kindergarten, never caused trouble, and was exceptionally quiet and low-key. She got along well with both teachers and classmates, who all liked her.

read alone,

on her computer, Athena clicked the "X" in the

was no information about Nellie on

Since she wasn't the main subject in those photos, the accompanying reports didn't mention her specifically. At most, they casually noted her id 'They've scrubbed her presence completely,

now. Continuing could alert her

as she glanced at the clock. It

internet, shut down her computer, and went to

breakfast with the Donovan family, Arthur and Maria

family. Once the compensation for the new homes is settled,

paperwork. I told themtransfer

Mom is still

on a business trip. They're

the transfer within the

couple of days.

Maria showed everyone a

injured them. All five of them are receiving treatment at a clinic. They now have nowhere to live and no money for food, so they want us to hurry and pick them up. He also said that the four elderly members are partial to Several people looked at the photos while scoffing at Joel, feeling no sympathy

the pictures, Joel looked bruised and battered, but

two slightly older children had only