"Stay away from her, monster!"
Everything happened so quickly that Eddie couldn't stop the name-calling in time. "It's not a monster…"
After hearing Olivia's scream, Shannon doubled back upstairs. When she saw Albany, seething and cloaked in swirling black smoke after being smacked by the talisman, she sighed and extended a hand.
"Come over here, Albie."
She realized it was her own fault for not explaining things clearly to Olivia.
Until then, only she and Benjamin could communicate with Albany. No one else knew that the flying turtle could not only understand human speech but also talk back.
For Olivia, this was a first—and clearly a shocking one.
Still fuming, Albany huffed and floated over in his usual dramatic smoke-cloud, then flopped onto Shannon's back like a grumpy backpack.
At that moment, Carlos had just reactivated the livestream.
Viewers barely had time to settle in before Shannon's POV came into focus, right as a black smoke-shrouded turtle, the size of a human forearm, drifted toward them through the camera.
The chat collectively dropped the F-bomb.
Viewers had seen Shannon with a flying tortoise back in Season Two, but that clearly wasn't the same as this one.
Thanks to the dramatic camera angle, all they saw now was a massive, prehistoric-looking turtle floating straight toward the lens like some ancient mythical beast.
Another collective meltdown exploded in the chat.
"That alligator snapping turtle is flying!"
"Do all of Shannon's pets fly? Can she be my owner, too?"
In the initial wave of chaos and wild guesses, the audience finally figured out why the livestream had suddenly resumed in the middle of the night. Something had gone down!
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