"She's not Phoebe Caldwell... she's Foebe Larson..." Hannah's body trembled uncontrollably, as if she couldn't fight the effects of the drugs. "It's Foebe, after being hypnotized..."
According to Hannah, Foebe was in cahoots with Damian, and I was definitely not the rebirth of Phoebe Caldwell.
I am Foebe Larson.
Phoebe Caldwell was dead.
By the time the police discovered the body in the glass cabinet, Phoebe Caldwell was already dead.
Damian's hypnosis was so successful, even I... was fooled.
Naomi grabbed my hair, smashing my head against the wall, blood trickling down my forehead.
Ha...
Turns out, I'm really just a joke.
"Foebe, you and Damian are in this together. Damian is a traitor," Naomi said, gripping my hair, forcing me to look at Hannah. "Did you hear that? You're with Damian. Her dad hypnotized you, made you forget everything, then implanted new memories about Phoebe Caldwell, creating a false illusion of Phoebe Caldwell's rebirth in you."
"Before this, he fed you a lot of information about Phoebe Caldwell, her research records, her behaviors... Based on the organization's surveillance logs of Phoebe, you thought it'd be easy to impersonate her," Naomi chuckled. "So, you're not Phoebe... you're Foebe."
"To make you more like Phoebe, Damian had to trick even you into believing you were Phoebe. Only if you believed it, others would too," Naomi said, looking at me with pity. "Just a pitiful creature who doesn't even know who she is..."
"His hypnosis made you firmly believe you were Phoebe. So, when you suddenly woke up one day, believing you were reborn in someone else's body... That was a fallacy, a show put on by Damian and you. Your real goal was to expose the organization, to draw police attention to us, to expose us..."
Naomi pushed me away, whispering, "Get rid of her, stage a suicide, throw her into the sea."
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