PRESENT DAY.
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Felix's eyes widened as the sight of his sister's pendant sitting in Leo's grasp registered. For the first time in a long time, he disobeyed Zelda's orders and let go of Nicholas. "Why do you have that?" Felix whispered inaudibly. The next moment, he was at Leo's throat, closing the distance between them in the blink of an eye. "Why do you have my sister's pendant?" Felix mumbled. It was a gift he'd given his sister around her childhood years. He'd tell her to hold on to it whenever she was scared.
Leo gasped, struggling to speak. Before he could retort, Zelda dived forward, attempting to grab Leo by the head in order to shut him up permanently. She'd known the person Felix had been searching for was her mother all along, and suspected that the thought had crossed the e
