Chapter 104

Third person point of view

The paragraph that caught her eyes read— I am in a position where I don't even qualify as a player in the eyes of these madmen, I feel surrounded and backed to a corner…. The time has come for me to use the technique I learnt from the Natural Academy; The Queen's Gambit. It is risky, and I might lose my life…. But for a chess piece striving to be a player, it is all or nothing.

"I'm beginning to understand that Poppy Fletcher was on a different playing field." Persephone only had to read this paragraph to know Poppy Fletcher was living a different kind of life back then.

"It's useless thinking much of it, for your sake treat the matter of Poppy And Ruen Striker as a step by step lesson, leave it for now, and also, catch some sleep, you look dead."