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.
bright smiles as if nourished
walked across the field, her attire clashing with the sundresses and t-shirts around
the freedom of college fashion spared her
few whistle-blowing guys, intrigued by Willa's cool demeanor, hesitated to
walked on, ignoring all the signals around her,
a monument stood in memory of a shooting that had occurred years
the world, the monument bore
all this time, fresh flowers still lay at the base,
scanned the names and found the one
known
blatantly provocative nickname, yet it had lain hidden here for so long,
Shameless!
studied the name, her eyes betraying scorn, anger, and a complex web of
someone so full
Who was her mother?
was the purpose behind her
monster truly love
Willa was baffled.
of her
treasures, and
And her?
living apology to the world-if there was anything she shared with other children,
of a creator's evil,
she stared at the
but it
knew?" A voice
turned to see an older man dressed as a gardener, his hair silvered
was speaking to himself or Willa when he added, "I was here cleaning when the shooting happened, right
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