Tʜᴇ Pʀᴏᴍɪꜱᴇᴅ Nᴇᴠᴇʀʟᴀɴᴅ: Tʜᴇ Sʜᴀᴅᴏᴡ Sᴀᴠɪᴏᴜʀ

|1| A Warm Welcome

Somewhere around the Grace Field House stored a hidden room. The room only contained various bookshelves and old-fashioned lightings adorned on walls. Although one particular object stood out from the rest of the vintage furniture around the room.

A radio transmitter.

"Scheduled check-in. Scheduled check in." Isabella made sure her head piece was working well. "This is 73854. Plant Three. May 2nd."

For this reason she's using the radio is to hand in her report for an unusual encounter with a certain child she found in the forest.

She then goes on to do a report of her locating an unknown child found in the middle of a forest inside Grace Field's walls. She explained in precise detail about the outside appearance of the child that stands out with the rest of the children inside her orphanage. Running out of ideas, she sighed back in her seat before ending transmission.

Before she can end it there, someone spoke on the other end.

"Isabella?"

The mentioned user gasp. "Grandma?"

"I've heard you saying that there is an unknown child in your side?" Grandma spoke.

"Affirmative. I have yet to determine more of this mysterious child. I already spoke to him and he said that he had never been here before or how he ended up here." Isabella added.

"That certainly is strange." Grandma said. "What else you may add?"

She wish she knew much about him but didn't. Fang didn't offer much of an explanation when she wanted to question how he gotten to Grace Field and happened to be laying outside in the middle of the forest. It didn't make any sense to her.

Although she noticed something else from Fang himself and that is he didn't have what the other children have.

"I checked that he had no number tattoo on any part of his body. Furthermore, he had no tracking device implanted in his left ear or any sorts when I checked my tracker. On my assumption, he is a stray that happened to land on the property of Grace Field by something or someone that led him here."

The other side sighed. Right when everything was turning out to be normal for all the plants that there would be an unexpected turn of events to happen.

"New orders. Continue monitoring that child and interrogate any information you can get out of him. If what I feared for is correct and that child is from the outside, this would pose a problem for the other children. In the meantime, I'll notify the higher-ups of this certain matter. Good job reporting, Isabella." Grandma ended with a chuckle.

"I understand." Isabella replied.

"Before I go, Isabella, listen to me." Grandma began. "The other plants have bore very poor fruit. No premium-quality children can satisfy the Boss's taste. However, yours is a special treatment. Grace Field is the only plant who can offer such high-quality goods and to be sent to the Tifari. If that child you found in the forest is that of a premium or high-quality or even more so, this would certainly please Him."

Isabella closed her eyes. Of course she knew about this fact from the very beginning. The other houses were producing barely above average children to be offered to the higher-ups. With Grace Field being the only thing that can deliver supreme goods.

Then there is Fang to find out about. Who is he and why did he end up in Grace Field? There must be an answer lying somewhere around him and she'll figure it out eventually. Oddly enough he spawned only here and not on the other neighbouring houses. There is surely a reason of him being here, right?