Imagine if it did. Imagine if there was a dossier on every female. What if all it took was for a Kurian to see the woman he’s supposed to be with? What if we could try to partner them up sooner rather than later? We could try to get the next generation of Kurians growing in uteruses far sooner.
The picture of Sophia with a swollen belly comes to me, but I shove it away. She won't become pregnant if I can't figure out how to best save her, and I want to have a solid game plan in mind before I go to her. I'm also going to have to talk to her in code.
I also might want to try to find the silver-haired man. That idea seizes me, and I opt to do some research on him first, but without a name, I can’t get anywhere at all. It’s pointless.
All right, back to digging for intel on Sophia. Let’s see… Her parents had been Anna and Mark Clyde. They seemed to live a quiet life together until one day, their house was burned down. Several other houses had been burned down around that time, and the police had no leads as to the arsonist.
Enter teenage Sophia. She did her own bit of police work, and she managed to uncover the identity of the arsonist. She went to the police about it, but they didn't believe her. Some of the articles I'm reading make it sound like her age or her gender is the reason for that, which baffles me. Just because she was young doesn't mean she doesn't know what she's talking about, and her gender? Women are intelligent, capable, and so much more. They aren't any less than a man. Who would think that, and why? Dad told me that all of the Novan doctors had been females before the Grots came and killed them all. Women are skilled.
When the police wouldn’t look into the man she had uncovered as the arsonist, Sophia tricked the guy into committing it again at a specific building, and she filmed him in the act and hacked into the police station so that they saw the live footage. They scrambled to arrest the guy then.
Damn, is she capable. I love that she had so much gumption, so much drive to be able to get the ovian bastard responsible. He set an additional five fires after her house and before the fire that he was caught setting. Five fires too many.
The articles don’t specify how she tricked the guy into setting the building on fire. Maybe I can ask her about it.
Let’s see…
I read more and more articles about her, learning that she's well known for her profession. People know she's a bounty hunter, and that she's a good one too. She doesn't hide her job at all. That doesn't strike me as the safest of ideas, especially considering that others might want her dead too, even if they haven't put a bounty on her head.
And then I start to see articles that paint a slightly different side of her.
Sophia herself has committed arson. It was to capture one of her targets, but others had been in the building. No one was hurt, but still. It makes me question things a bit.
And then there’s a time when she pulled over onto the side of the road and pretended to need assistance with her car. It was an act to try to get one of her targets to come to her, but someone else did. As a result, when a car came careening around the corner, the car plowed into the innocent man. An accident, yes, but if it weren’t for her profession, she wouldn’t have been there at that place and time, and that guy never would’ve stopped. The article doesn’t detail if Sophia ever did capture her target or not.
Still, that’s a freak thing. She never meant for that guy to die.
Or maybe she did. This article has a conspiracy theory that Sophia is using her profession as a means to play god and to take out her own bounties against those she thinks has wronged others. That innocent man who pulled over to help her? He was wanted on rape charges.
Now, I’m utterly confused, but I can’t stop reading. This article says she’s a blessing, that she’s helping to keep the peace, but this one states that she’s a menace who thinks she’s above the law, that the cops should bring her in.
But then I read the most damning article of all.
Sophia Clyde has done many things over the years, but the latest accusation against her is by far the worst.
Sophia Clyde is a well-known bounty hunter, and why shouldn’t she be? She’s good at her job, maybe even a little too good. She’s willing to do what it takes to get her bounty, and she’ll hunt down anyone.
Even kids.
Yes, even kids.
Her latest target was none other than the nine-year-old Mitchel Lionnel. Yes, the son of one of the officers of Global Countries of Earth. Why was there a bounty on Mitchel? No one knows, but what does that matter? Nothing at all to Sophia Clyde, that’s for sure, considering she kidnapped—excuse me. She collected a bounty on the young boy.
Mitchel has since been returned to his father, but where had Sophia taken him? Why? What was the bounty for that would make Sophia willing to steal a young boy from his loving family?
It's my opinion that Sophia Clyde should be put on trial for her crimes. She's not a bounty hunter. She's a kidnapper, and she deserves to spend time behind bars.
Or maybe we should just let her fry. She’s willing to go to any lengths to make a buck. Why shouldn’t we save money and just allow her to be killed so she doesn’t take up any more of our precious resources?
Now, clearly, this is a one-sided account, but I
