Mr. Kane Got Blacklisted

Stella was awakened by a dog’s barking.

She opened her eyes and found herself in a room with mud walls covered in newspaper. The tungsten lightbulb on the ceiling looked old, and the glass wall had black mold all over it. The room was filled with various antique items, and she realized she was covered under a large floral-patterned blanket that was very warm and soft, exuding a faint scent of the sun. Suddenly, Stella felt like she was in a movie where she had time-traveled to the 80s.

‘Does that mean that Keegan had also time-traveled?’ she wondered.

However, the smartphone on the table shattered her fantasy. She lay in bed for a while but soon decided to get up-

The fever had left her feeling weak and sweaty. After spending a few days in the mountains and sweating all night, her body had an unpleasant smell.

She wanted to freshen up but realized there was nothing in the room. So, she adjusted her clothes and went outside.

She only noticed that she was sleeping in the master bedroom of an ancient adobe house. There was another room with a separate entrance at the side. A black dog was inside, and it would not stop barking at the passersby.

was a hawthorn tree on the eastern side of the entrance. It was winter, and the tree had shed all its leaves, leaving only hawthorn berries hanging from the branches. It looked beautiful yet

remembered when she would pick hawthorn berries under a tree like that one during her childhood

her thoughts, she heard someone talking to her from

from the west side

at the coat he was wearing and explained with a smile, Mr. Jewell said that my clothes were too thin, so he gave me this. It feels pretty

of responding to that,

the backyard.

backyard was larger than the front yard. There was a

were only pigs left on the farm. Arthur was getting older; although he was still very healthy, he could not

pig but

all the piglets himself when he was younger. However, his hands

castrating one. He held the

like a coach in a basketball game, frantically directing his inexperienced player who could not