Chapter 21

Worried all morning, Daphne finally received news, but it was bad. The butler personally came to tell her. "Ms. Miller, according to the surveillance footage, the snakelet left the study by climbing out the window and went straight for the front gate. The gate wasn't protected by a defensive barrier. The snakelet slipped out during the soldiers' shift change. "But don't worry. Colonel Lester has already sent people to check the closed-circuit television cameras. I'm sure we'll know where the snakelet went soon." Daphne sat on the couch, replaying the butler's words in her mind again and again. Where could the snakelet have gone? The city still had traffickers around. What if her child got... She didn't dare think any further. She could only hope her child would be safe. She still had one snake egg left as she had already lost the other. She had to make sure she didn't lose the remaining one. But she had no idea when the egg would hatch. She decided to take responsibility as a