Griffin fretted that Percival might actually break Leopold in two, so she quickly wheeled his chair away from the scene. Percival glanced in the direction the pair had escaped.
"Fine," he thought, "Someday I'll show 'em some old-school roughhousing!"
"Mr. Wolf, any luck running into Kenneth?" Vivienne strolled up and asked.
Suddenly inspired, she considered creating a new fragrance, a companion to the "Old Man" scent-calling it "Old Ruffian".
Percival nodded. "Yeah, he looked pretty down, not even watching where he was going."
"Ah, to be young again." Karen chuckled.
After a brief discussion outside the ward about Dracon and Gillian's situation, the group was about to head out for a meal when Karen's cell phone rang. It was Willa Perez.
Ever since Karen had returned to the Perez family, Willa had been conspicuously absent.
Karen had tried to reach out a few times, but Willa's obsession ran deep; she wanted to track down F-Poison before returning to the Perez family.
Karen respected that. Willa had her own path to follow.
The unexpected message from Willa now piqued Karen's curiosity.
The text contained a photo of a university gate abroad.
That very university was where Flynn had studied overseas-the same place F-Poison had once been.
Karen took a deep breath. "Willa's on to F-Poison's trail. Hopefully, she digs up some leads."
In Scepter Country, Willa stared at the university's gate and strode through with determination.
The campus was alive with the vigor of youth.
gender, wore bright smiles as if
leather jacket, walked across the field, her attire clashing with the sundresses and t-shirts
of college fashion spared her any undue
by Willa's
walked on, ignoring all the signals around her, and headed straight for a war
memory of a shooting that had
the world, the monument bore inscriptions in multiple
flowers still lay at
the names and found the one that
known as
nickname, yet it had lain hidden here for so
Shameless!
hardened as she studied the name, her eyes betraying scorn, anger, and a complex
how someone so full of
Who was her mother?
purpose
truly
Willa was baffled.
of her existence in
legacies, treasures, and the continuation of
And her?
to the world-if there was anything she shared
a creator's evil, shadowy
fists clenched as she stared
warmed her jacket, but it couldn't match the
this monument honor someone you knew?" A voice came from
an older man dressed as a gardener, his
as he arranged the flowers neatly and wiped the dust from the monument. It was unclear if he was speaking to himself or Willa when he added, "I was here cleaning when the
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