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.
of gender, wore bright smiles as if nourished
field, her attire clashing with the sundresses and
college fashion
by Willa's cool
ignoring all the signals around her, and headed
a monument stood in memory of a shooting that had occurred
the monument bore inscriptions in
still lay at the base, a silent tribute
and found the one
known as
lain hidden here for so long, commemorated and
Shameless!
her eyes betraying
how someone so full of venom could
Who was her mother?
the purpose behind
remorseless, conscienceless monster truly love his wife and
Willa was baffled.
was the point of her existence
and the continuation of
And her?
was darkness, sorrow, a living apology to the world-if there was anything she shared with other
of a creator's
she
sun warmed her jacket, but it couldn't match the heat in
you knew?" A voice came from
turned to see an older man dressed as a gardener, his
said 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
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