Joshua noticed Cedrick’s unusually stern expression. “What’s on your mind, Cedrick?”
Cedrick was staring at the cover of the book, Abnormal Psychology, and thinking about what Benedict had said to him earlier in the ward.
“Benny told me a professor in the lab gave it to him, so I came to ask you since you were with him the most. Who else spends that much time with him?”
He wanted to know if it was a coincidence or a deliberate act to give a five-year-old child something so disturbing.
“I’ll look into it,” Joshua promised. “I wouldn’t be too worried, though, Cedrick. It must have been a coincidence.”
Cedrick nodded.
Five minutes later, Joshua found out from the professors on duty in the laboratory that it was given by a biochemist named Eugene Yortz.
Eugene was an elderly professor of about sixty, with a snow-white beard, a straight nose, and chiseled features.
He was not Chanaean. Instead, he was sent from Astoria as part of a collaborative project.
Joshua led Cedrick to Eugene’s office to pay the professor a visit.
“Eugene is a strange fellow,” he warned Cedrick in a whisper along the way. “Aside from having a funny character, he’s withdrawn, easily irritable, obsessed with research, and has zero regard for interpersonal communication skills. The things he does sometimes are bizarre.”
Behind his back, the other professors called him Professor Nuts.
After listening intently, Cedrick mulled it over for a while.
become an entirely different person. However, Eugene is different. He is sixty years of age. Having had enough of his eccentricity, his ex-wife left
was thinking, the pair
does what he wants and speaks his mind when something displeases him. He doesn’t care who you
frowned and thought that he quite liked people
Benedict as strange a journal as Abnormal
his eyes, Cedrick knocked
Knock, knock, knock.
thrice
no sign of movement in the office, nor was there the
out on business,” Joshua said. “Why don’t I keep an eye here and let
him leave the lab during work hours.
force, he
irritated voice sounded from the office. “What good would knocking do? Why won’t
profusely on the other side of the
earful before we even
Cedrick and cleared his throat. “This is Prof. Mallory. I have something urgent to talk to you
moment’s silence, the doorknob twisted
at them. “If you come knocking again without stating your
as an elder who was his father’s age. Being familiar with his temperament, he thought it
Chanaea, Professor Yortz. How
Cedrick and scanned him up and down before fixating his gaze on his face. “I opened the door like you wanted, and you’re telling me off,” he said huffily. “Feel free to make an anonymous report about me if you think I’m not
what I meant,” Cedrick replied. “Like you, Professor Yortz,
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