"If that's the case, why do you act all high and mighty in front of others, pretending to be so Zen, but show a completely different face to me and Diana? How can you be so two-faced?" Diana was caught off guard. For a moment, she couldn't tell what was truth and what was a lie.
Chloe scoffed, "Kalilah, I'm not hitting you because you're a hypocrite or because you fake being innocent while you're actually deceitful. I can put up with your little schemes, but I'm hitting you because you're evil and even tried to kill me."
Both Diana and Kalilah were stunned by this revelation. Kalilah's eyes showed a flash of guilt, but she tried to stay calm. "Chloe, I don't know what you're talking about."
Chloe didn't waste any more words. She turned and walked over to her air mattress. With one swift motion, she flipped it over and pulled out something wrapped in banana leaves. "What's this?"
Kalilah was visibly panicked now. "What's this... How should I know..."
However, Diana bravely took the banana leaf package from Chloe's hands and unwrapped it. Inside was a whole snake egg. She recognized it immediately. It was the same snake egg Kalilah had brought back from the woods. That day, Kalilah had brought back a bunch of snake eggs from the mountains. Most were dropped and smashed on the ground, but there were one or two that remained intact. And only Kalilah had handled them.
Now, to find a whole snake egg, neatly wrapped in banana leaves under Chloe's bed, there was only one possibility: Kalilah had put it there. Diana finally pieced everything together. She was too shocked to speak. She looked at Kalilah in disbelief. "Kalilah, how could you?"
Kalilah actually wanted to kill Chloe. Such evil intent was unimaginable. They were merely strangers who had met a few days ago. How could one harbor such malice towards a stranger?
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