Episode 13 Finale - Curious Kitten
“What did you find?” I questioned Sebastian as he stood next to me, setting my morning tea on the table in front of me.
We sat in the garden today because it was a beautiful morning, and I wanted to assess nature after all the rotten un-humane things that have been going on.
“Well, I found both things of what you were looking for,” Sebastian responded in a dark tone.
He set a bundle of files on the table in front of me, and I immediately searched through them.
“This is the old man?” I said then, searching through the pages. “Charles Vanity The Third… age, seventy-two, suffers from PAD,” my eyes narrowed, “peripheral arterial disease.” I stared at the paper suspiciously. “And had his right leg removed at age thirty-three.”
I gazed up at Sebastian then. “Peripheral Arterial Disease is a vascular condition that can cause the tissues or your limbs to deteriorate. And in result, it can lead to amputation.”
Sebastian nodded in response. “Indeed, my lord.” He gazed up. “He’s had all four limbs amputated due to it, and he went through a replacement surgery to have his arms and legs replaced with prosthetics.”
“Was it successful?” I said then.
He nodded.
I gazed down at the files then. “I mean, I would understand that kidnapping these teenagers and experimenting on them to find the correct prosthetic, but… why on Earth would that be of value when you can walk again? Does he just fear he doesn’t look human?”
I dropped the file on the desk, picking up the other one.
I opened the page. “And this must be the mystery child.” I narrowed my eyes as I read it. “Sage Caprino… age seventeen…” I trailed off when I read the next sentence, “she’s… dead?”
Sebastian nodded.
“Well, that explains her disappearance within all these carnival acts,” I said, sighing when I read the paper. “Diagnosed with the same vascular disease as her father but ended up dying at a young age because of it. It looks like she didn’t die from the disease itself, but she caught a massive infection after one of her amputations and died from that.”
I glanced over at Sebastian. “Peripheral arterial disease doesn’t come from nowhere. It’s just a blockage in the arteries, what caused the blockages?”
“Both her and her father had untreated type one diabetes, my lord,” Sebastian said.
I gazed down at the paper. “Really? And that’s what killed her? Not a heart attack?” I just sighed. “I guess life throws its punches, doesn’t it?”
“Assuredly, my lord.”
I gazed down to the files then, lashes lowering. “Charles, the third… I knew he sounded familiar.”
“Do you know him?” Sebastian said.
“He was an acquaintance of my father,” I explained, tapping my fingers on the table impatiently. “A very mild one, if that. One day, he just magically vanished, and I guess this was why. He was ill and couldn’t help anymore.”
“That does explain it,” Sebastian said then.
“But why teenagers…?” I said quietly, brows drawing together. “Why on Earth does he kidnap all these teens and then try to remodify them? He can walk, he has working prosthetics. I feel like the answer is right in my face.”
Sebastian just remained at my side, like a protective statue.
I just slapped the files back on the table. “It doesn’t matter. I have a task. We need to save those children.
“NOW.”
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