Isabella Wyland had studied the young human through the two-way mirror for several long minutes before she had entered the room. She had always had a fascination with humans ever since she had been a little girl. An avid collector, she had spent years acquiring as many unusual pieces as she could for her collection.
When her half-brother, Theodore Badger, had approached her almost a week ago offering to sell her some of his prized pieces, she knew that he had discovered something far more valuable. It was the only reason he would have parted with some of the artifacts he had shown her.
Theodore was a product of her mother’s very brief marriage to Theodore’s father after Isabella’s father, Oliver Wyland, had passed away. Fortunately, her father had been more sensible than her mother. Oliv
