#Chapter 170: Miracle

I couldn’t get away from Iris fast enough. She probably felt I was being very rude. Vaguely, from somewhere far away, a little voice in my head told me that this episode wasn’t going to be great for my relationship with her. But I had to get somewhere private right away regardless. I just needed a moment to breathe. To be by myself and think about what she’d just told me. I played out in my mind the scenario she described. Over and over. Many times. I could see it vividly. I don’t know if it’s because I was holding Iris’s hand while she told me the story, or if it was just… so familiar… the words and actions of this person… She was calm when she told me the story, too. I believed that she was being truthful. But she misheard part of that conversation that preceded her shooting. Iris thought Scarlet inexplicably said, “Red.” The whole thing made a lot more sense if what she really said was, “Reg.” To the blue-eyed man that then shot an innocent bystander in an imp