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.
student, regardless of gender, wore bright smiles
black leather jacket, walked across the field, her attire clashing with the sundresses and t-shirts around
the freedom of college fashion spared her any undue
intrigued by Willa's
the signals around her, and headed straight for a war
in memory of a
world, the monument bore inscriptions in multiple languages, followed by
flowers still lay at the base, a silent
scanned the names and found the one
known
it had lain hidden here for so long, commemorated
Shameless!
her eyes betraying scorn, anger, and a complex
understand how someone so full
Who was her mother?
the purpose behind her
conscienceless monster truly love his
Willa was baffled.
of her existence in this
treasures, and the
And her?
there was anything
creator's
fists clenched as she stared
sun warmed her jacket, but it couldn't match the heat in her
someone you knew?" A voice came from
turned to see an older man dressed as a gardener,
It's best that you're not," the man said as he arranged the flowers neatly and wiped the dust from the monument. It was unclear if he was speaking to
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