Nathalie Quinlan grunted her thanks, with little reaction, quite coolly.
Brian Bonette smiled, then gestured for Wallace Radcliff and Phoebe Hoffman to leave with him.
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Alfred Garland escorted the trio outside until they reached the corner near the hospital room.
Phoebe Hoffman was the first to lose her patience and spoke up, "I can't understand why Amadeus has so much faith in a high school student, to even bring her to The Ninth Institute…"
"She knows medical skills? That's a freaking joke. How old is she? I didn't quite believe it when you said she had programming skills, and now Amadeus actually believes she knows medical skills. Adelle Wafford…"
She wanted to say that if Adelle Wafford couldn't even find a cure for Master Cadmus's illness, then a high school student like Nathalie Quinlan coming there was just a joke, right?