Renee sorted Kaitlyn’s pills, then neatly placed them into a small pillbox for each day of the week. She poured warm water and prepared to remind her mother to take her medicine.

Balancing the cup and medicine, Renee approached the room’s doorway. She suddenly heard her mother’s hushed voice on the phone.

Kaitlyn spoke softly, her tone urgent and low as if she meant it that way.

“Is everything taken care of?

“What? She… hasn’t died?

“You all are a bunch of useless people!

“…I don’t care about that. Just make sure she doesn’t return to Centrolis!”

Renee’s heart skipped a beat. She struggled to catch the words beyond the door. She wasn’t sure who her mother conversed with on the phone, and the thought that her mother could utter such things was hard to accept.

Could it be a misunderstanding? It had to be!

She furrowed her brow as doubts gnawed at her. Her mother had been unwell and withdrawn for so long. How could she now command others to do such things?

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and her grip

“Who’s out there?”

flung open the door abruptly. Catching Renee’s wide-eyed gaze, she emanated

cup slipped from her hand and shattered on the

icy as she demanded, “What are you up

came to give you

down and noticed Renee’s bleeding foot. A piece of glass had lodged itself in her foot from the shattered

yourself,” she said coldly. “The first aid kit is

aid kit isn’t in the cabinet,” Renee timidly corrected her. “Our first aid kit has always been

moment before softening her tone. “Renee, go tend to your

“Mom…”

wrong? Do you want to watch me take

I also cut up some fruits, and

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