53. Questions

"Kennith…." She took a picture out of the file on the table, placing it in front of me.

Seeing the content, I just stared at it.

"When we found out that the two of you disappeared, we feared that you wanted to harm Henry. The search for the two of you was nationwide." She sighed.

"It didn't take long to find out where you two were last seen." She tapped on the picture before me.

"We searched the forest. There was nothing, neither a monster nor a 'portal.'" She paused for what felt like forever, but I didn't care, not caring a bit about what she had to say.

"We had dispatched some officers to watch the vicinity after you disappeared with a supposed hostage, especially because it was the same area where Henrietta's corpse was found."

Hostage. Hostage. Hostage. It was Henry; he stabbed in my legs to die together at the monster's hooves.

Hostage. He was the one who dragged me with him.

Hostage. He was the one who was saved by me.