Chapter 42: The “Postpartum Care Center” is officially open!
Little Sanhua seemed completely oblivious to the horrific wound on her leg.
She took a deep, greedy breath of the air, which was thick with the rich scent of toasted pine nuts and chestnuts cut through by the crisp, damp smell of rain and earth. It smelled absolutely heavenly. She swallowed hard, her hollow stomach letting out another loud, desperate rumble.
Meow~
The hunger was entirely too much to bear. She lowered her head and began to tear into the field mouse her friends had brought. But her dulled senses couldn’t register anything beyond the metallic tang of fresh blood; that fleeting hint of sweetness in the air felt like a cruel trick of her imagination.
The two little orange kittens hovered close to her side, watching her swallow every bite with intense focus.
“Eat more, Xiao Sanhua! Eat, so your leg can heal faster.”
“Don’t worry about finishing it. If you’re still hungry, we’ll run right back out into the woods and find you some more.”
After taking only a few bites, the calico used her nose to push the remaining prey back toward the kittens. “You two eat, too.”
Hunting in this weather was exhausting, grueling work. Ever since she had been incapacitated by her injury, the heavy burden of feeding all three of them had fallen entirely onto these two young kittens. They were clearly starving, and at her urging, they wasted no time tearing into the scraps, eating ravenously.
Xiao Sanhua turned her gaze back toward the glowing log cabin, her eyes blank.
“The little squirrel told us that the human living there rescues animals. Do you really think it’s true?”
From where she lay, she could see the flickering dance of warm firelight. It looked like a magical place, entirely safe from the biting wind and the relentless downpour. And it held those delicious, sweet-smelling chestnuts and pine nuts.
The calico’s legs began to tremble violently, the freezing wind causing the agony in her shoulder to flare up with a vengeance. She had been tortured by the relentless pain for weeks, and as a severe shiver racked her tiny frame, she honestly wondered how much longer she could hold on.
The two orange kittens quickly polished off the rest of the mouse. Sensing her fading spirit, a heavy wave of distress washed over them. They pressed close, tenderly licking the fur around her jagged wound.
“Don’t worry, Xiao Sanhua. Xiaoju and I are going to check it out right now.”
“We’ll go up to the window. If we make it back alive, we’ll come get you, okay?”
The two kittens exchanged a look of grim determination. If they had any other choice, they would never dream of taking such a terrifying gamble. But Xiao Sanhua’s wound was simply too deep. Not only had it refused to heal, but the necrotic flesh had actually begun to attract insects.
If this kept up, their friend was going to die.
From everything they had gathered, only humans possessed the tools to fix a wound like this. They had to roll the dice. They had to bet everything on the squirrel’s promise that this particular human wouldn’t hurt them.
“You stay here. Keep yourself tucked deep into the roots.”
“If things go bad, stay hidden. Don’t come out no matter what.”
The calico let out a faint, submissive meow in response.
Turning on their heels, the two orange kittens sprinted out from beneath the roots, their sleek forms quickly dissolving into the sheets of gray rain. The icy water instantly soaked their fur, but they didn’t care. They ran flat-out toward the only warm, glowing beacon in the dark forest.
The two strays, who had spent their entire lives fearing and loathing humanity, found themselves desperately praying to whatever forces would listen.
Please save us! Please save Xiao Sanhua!
Back inside the cozy cabin, Su Wudeng had finally wrapped up the giveaway, selecting five lucky viewers from the chaotic live chat.
“Alright, let’s hear it for our big winners: @SnowCrystalNanny, @WhenIsTheGoldenRetrieverComingBack, @EmperorYingYing, @HuskyTailFanatic, and @FlowerPower! Congratulations to the five of you!”
“Your prizes are a generous portion of freshly stir-fried pine nuts and roasted chestnuts! Winners, please slide into my private messages with your shipping addresses, and I’ll get these packed up and mailed out to you first thing!”
The lucky winners immediately began gloating, flooding the holographic chat with celebratory messages.
[SnowCrystalNanny]: HAHAHA, I ACTUALLY WON! CHESNUTS ARE MINE! [HuskyTailFanatic]: Rest assured, everyone, I will write a 5,000-word essay reviewing my very first bite. [FlowerPower]: Thank you, Host! You are officially my favorite internet wife!
Su Wudeng beamed at the camera. “You’re all very welcome! Thank you so much for hanging out with me on this rainy day. I’ll post the shipping and tracking updates on the stream’s official notice board later, so keep an eye out for that.”
As she spoke, she cracked open another steaming chestnut.
The flesh inside was soft, sweet, and perfectly starchy, releasing a light, earthy fragrance the second the shell split. Taking a small bite, the warm aroma immediately coated her palate. She couldn’t help but feel a swell of pride—her roasting technique really was flawless.
Of course, she owed a lot of credit to the little squirrel. Every single nut Bengbeng had traded her was massive and bursting with flavor. Tomorrow, I’ll definitely have to bring him a thank-you gift, she thought. And see if I can trade for another batch.
She wondered what else squirrels liked besides raw nuts. Amber had mentioned that Bengbeng went absolutely crazy for the bread she had packed for the dog last time. She resolved to bake a fresh loaf in the morning to bring along.
Suddenly, the scrolling chat shifted from cheerful banter to a flurry of frantic alerts.
[AlertSystem]: Uh, Host? There’s something moving outside your window. [GhostHunter]: Yeah, I saw it too! A weird dark shadow just darted past!
Su Wudeng blinked. “A shadow?”
She turned her head toward the glass. The storm was still raging outside, fat droplets hammering relentlessly against the pane and obscuring the view with a thick sheet of water. What on earth could be out there in the middle of a typhoon?
Right on cue, a small, dark shape leaped up against the glass and vanished just as quickly.
Su Wudeng rushed to the window, Yingying instantly flanking her with her ears pinned in high alert. Looking closely through the blurred glass, she gasped. Two tiny orange kittens were huddled tight against the exterior sill.
The moment they spotted her through the glass, the kittens opened their mouths, letting out frantic, silent cries against the roar of the storm.
There was a tiny wooden awning jutting out over the window, but it was far too narrow to block a driving rain. The kittens were pressed flush against the glass, trying to use the minimal shelter, but half of their bodies were completely exposed. Their golden fur was matted down in wet, pathetic clumps.
Without their fluffy coats, they looked heartbreakingly small and skeletal. Their round, glossy eyes stared directly into hers, their jaws working as they pleaded for help.
“Oh, you poor little things!”
It made sense now—the “shadows” were just the kittens repeatedly leaping into the air to try and get her attention.
“What are you babies doing out in this weather?”
She quickly threw the window latches and pushed the glass open. “Come inside! Hurry!”
The instant the window swung inward, a violent blast of freezing wind slammed into her face. Su Wudeng shivered violently as the icy spray threatened to soak her shirt, the deep chill cutting straight to her bones.
Seeing the path clear, the two kittens exchanged a frantic look and leaped nimbly onto the indoor sill. Su Wudeng immediately scooped them up into her arms, but the second her hands brushed their bodies, her brow furrowed in deep worry.
“Why are you both ice-cold?”
Their undercoats were completely saturated. Having spent so much time exposed to the freezing downpour, their core body temperatures had plummeted dangerously low.
However, the moment the two orange kittens touched down on the dry floor, they were instantly hit by a wall of intoxicating aroma.
Oh my goodness… what is that smell? It’s coming from that plate of golden food on the table! Are those… chestnuts and pine nuts? How do they smell like that? I’ve never smelled anything so amazing in my life!
Their little pink noses twitched rapidly, the sweet, caramelized scent making them visibly dizzy with hunger.
Watching their tiny heads wobble as they sniffed the air, Su Wudeng couldn’t help but laugh softly. “Sounds like you two are absolutely starving. Have you not eaten today?”
Looking at their shivering, skeletal bodies, it was obvious they had been wandering in the typhoon for hours. With no proper shelter in the deep woods, they had likely spotted the warm glow of her cabin and braved the clearing to escape the elements. Hunting was impossible in this kind of rain; they must be completely famished.
She quickly shelled a few warm chestnuts and placed them directly in front of the pair. “Here you go. Give these a try and see if you like them.”
The two kittens stared at the golden meat, one of them swallowing audibly. It lowered its nose, took an experimental sniff, and let out a tiny gasp—up close, it smelled a hundred times better! It opened its jaws and took a big bite, its round eyes instantly lighting up like twin stars.
“This is amazing!”
“I didn’t know plants could taste like this!”
Seeing its sibling digging in, the second kitten abandoned all caution and began to scarf down the food.
As the two kittens ate as if it were their last meal, Su Wudeng gently stroked their wet backs, her worry deepening. “If I don’t get you dry, you’re going to catch pneumonia. Is it okay if I use a towel to dry you off?”
The kittens were so utterly consumed by the roasted chestnuts that they didn’t even bother to pull away. Su Wudeng took their silence as a yes, gently wrapping them in a thick, plush towel and rubbing them down with soft, careful strokes.
The feral kittens had never experienced anything like this. They had never tasted cooked food, nor had they ever felt such absolute, total warmth. There was no freezing wind here. No stinging rain.
By the time they finished the last crumb of chestnut, their fur was clean, dry, and fluffy. A warm, ambient breeze from the cabin’s heating system washed over them, making them want to stretch their tiny spines out completely. Their bodies melted into the soft rug, their eyes half-closing in pure, unadulterated comfort.
But as they relaxed, a massive, snow-white shadow suddenly loomed over them.
A snow leopard!
Every single hair on the two kittens’ bodies violently exploded outward.
“A snow leopard! Why is there a giant apex predator inside the house?!”
The instinctual, primal terror deeply embedded in their DNA made their tiny legs knock together.
Su Wudeng quickly scooped them back into her lap, petting them firmly to soothe their racing hearts. “Shh, it’s okay, it’s okay. Yingying is a good girl. She would never hurt you.”
Hearing her name, Yingying politely took a few slow steps backward, settling onto her haunches with a calm, serene expression. Her gentle, non-threatening demeanor allowed the kittens to slowly stop hyperventilating.
“See? I told you. There’s nothing to be afraid of.”
As the kittens lowered their hackles, they peered past Yingying’s massive paws—and spotted the rest of the room’s occupants. Tucked away in a cozy corner were the Snow Crystal Cat cubs and the little Husky pup.
The two strays froze, completely stunned.
“Is that… is that the litter of Snow Crystal Cats that everyone said was dying?!”
“They’re so clean and beautiful! They look incredibly healthy!”
“And those dog cubs… aren’t those the ones Amber brought in a while ago? They actually survived their awakening phase!”
The two kittens looked at each other, the absolute shock in their eyes mirroring one another. A singular, mind-blowing realization cemented itself in their minds: Everything the little squirrel said was completely true! This human really does rescue pets!
Without a second thought, both kittens threw themselves at Su Wudeng, frantically rubbing their cheeks against her hands and arms, letting out a barrage of desperate meows.
“Meow meow meow! Please, you have to help us! We have another friend outside!”
“She’s hurt really, really bad!”
One of the kittens began gesturing wildly, unsheathing a tiny claw and slicing it dramatically across its own front leg.
“There was so much blood! The hole is so deep!”
“Can you save her like you saved the others?”
Watching the kitten’s frantic pantomime and the way it kept pointing to its leg, Su Wudeng’s intuition clicked. “You mean you have an injured companion out there? A cat with a severe front-leg injury?”
“Where are they? Take me to them right now!”
The thought of an injured cat huddled out in the freezing mud while a typhoon raged was too much for her to bear. Without waiting another second, she stood up. “Lead the way. Let’s go get your friend!”
She looked down at the two kittens as they eagerly scrambled toward the door. Now that their fur was dry, she could see just how malnourished they actually were—nothing but skin and bones beneath their fluff. They had clearly been living a brutal, hand-to-mouth existence.
Su Wudeng grabbed her heavy umbrella, threw open the front door, and stepped out into the blinding sheets of rain. Fortunately, the kittens didn’t lead her deep into the wilderness; they stopped right at the edge of the clearing, where the forest canopy began.
The two orange guides halted beneath the sprawling roots of a massive oak tree. They dashed out from under her umbrella, straining their little necks as they let out loud, echoing calls into the hollow of the wood.
Su Wudeng waited under her umbrella, her chest tight with anxiety. What if the injured kitten was terrified of humans? What if it saw her and bolted deeper into the pitch-black forest where she couldn’t track it? Should she take a few steps back to give it space?
Suddenly, a tiny, fragile rustle came from the shadows beneath the root network.
Su Wudeng focused her gaze. A small calico cat was cautiously poking its head out from a gap in the wood. The driving rain had completely ruined its coat, matted fur clinging tightly to a skeletal body. But its eyes were wide and strikingly bright. Even with its face smeared with mud and soaked by the storm, its sharp, delicate features were undeniably beautiful.
Su Wudeng caught her breath. A calico! From the kittens’ description, she had assumed it was another ginger cat.
The calico possessed a perfect pink nose, which twitched tentatively as it sampled the air. Su Wudeng had never seen a calico with such a flawless, striking distribution of colors. The little thing stared up at her with a mixture of profound awe and intense timidity, letting out a soft, questioning mew. Its pristine white patches had long been stained a dull gray by mud and forest grime.
Su Wudeng slowly dropped into a low squat, keeping her movements incredibly fluid. “Hey there, beautiful girl,” she called out, her voice a gentle whisper. “Don’t be scared. I’m here to help you.”
The little calico tilted her head, observing the human for a long moment before finally stepping out from the hollow. She limped heavily, every single step causing her entire body to flinch with visible agony.
As she stepped into the light, Su Wudeng finally got a clear look at the front leg. Her breath hitched in horror.
The laceration was catastrophic—deep enough that the pale flash of bone was visible through the torn muscle, and the edges of the wound had already begun to turn a sickly, festering yellow. A foul mixture of blood and pus was running down its paw.
Su Wudeng’s heart wrenched. “How on earth did you survive with a wound like that?”
It was freezing, pouring rain, and this tiny creature had been hiding in the dirt with an open, infected fracture. It was a miracle she was still breathing.
The moment the two orange kittens saw their friend emerge, they immediately flanked her, pressing their bodies against hers to offer support. They meowed at her at a mile a minute, their voices thick with excitement.
“It’s true! Everything Bengbeng said is real!”
“She’s a good human! She’s going to fix you!”
“Do you remember that dying litter of Snow Crystal Cats? We just saw them inside! They’re alive, they’re clean, and they’re eating amazing food!”
The little calico’s eyes seemed to clear, a profound look of hope reflecting in her wet gaze as she looked up at Su Wudeng. Will she really help me?
Unable to withstand that heartbreaking, hopeful stare for another second, Su Wudeng carefully reached forward. Seeing that the calico didn’t flinch or hiss, she gently rested her palm against the cat’s matted forehead, running her fingers down her spine before carefully scooping the fragile creature into her arms.
“I’ve got you, sweetheart. Don’t be scared. Let’s get you fixed up.”
The calico was shivering so violently that her bones seemed to rattle; she felt like a block of ice through Su Wudeng’s clothes. Anticipating this, Su Wudeng pulled a thick, dry fleece blanket from her pack and wrapped it tightly around her, creating a warm little cocoon. Throughout the entire ordeal, the calico remained entirely docile, offering no resistance whatsoever.
“Such a good girl. Hold on tight, we’re going home right now.”
Su Wudeng spoke in a soothing, continuous murmur, walking with brisk, incredibly level strides to avoid jarring the infected leg.
The calico let out a tiny, breathless purr. Nestled deep against the human’s chest, she could feel a radiating, powerful heat. It felt so incredibly safe.
Are humans really capable of being this kind? the little cat wondered, straining her neck to keep her eyes locked onto Su Wudeng’s face.
The moment Su Wudeng kicked the cabin door open, a glorious wave of warm, dry air enveloped them.
She moved directly to the medical station, laying the blanketed calico down onto a clean, sterile towel. Without a moment’s delay, she began pulling out her surgical tools and antiseptics.
As the ambient warmth of the room soaked into her fur, the calico let out a long shudder. It’s so warm in here…
Her round eyes darted around the room, taking in the soft, golden illumination of the lamps. The sweet, buttery scent of roasted chestnuts hung thick in the air, and her pink nose twitched automatically as she inhaled. It smells like heaven. She let out a soft, content meow.
Su Wudeng looked back over her shoulder, her chest tight with pity. The cat was clearly starving, but given the severe infection and impending surgery, solid food was out of the question.
She turned to her partner. “Yingying, can you do me a huge favor and see if she’ll drink some nutrient milk while I prep? I need to get this wound cleaned and stitched immediately.”
“Yingying!” the snow leopard trilled, immediately shifting into nurse mode.
The little calico, however, froze in absolute terror as the massive, apex predator bounded gracefully toward her table.
A snow… a snow leopard?! A real, giant monster?!
Before her brain could fully process the panic, she noticed the other inhabitants of the room gathered behind the big cat. The Snow Crystal Cat cubs and the Husky pup were sitting in a neat row, watching her with curiosity.
The calico’s mind went entirely blank. How are there so many different species living under one roof?
Before she could spiral further, Yingying skillfully pinned a small bottle of warm formula between her massive, furry paws, gently nudging the silicone nipple against the calico’s nose. The leopard’s paw was literally larger than the calico’s entire torso. Trembling from head to toe, the small cat instinctively opened her mouth. She didn’t dare refuse a direct order from a leopard.
She honestly felt like she had died out in the mud and entered some bizarre, fever-dream afterlife. If her leg didn’t hurt so badly, she would have assumed she was dreaming. A giant wildcat is literally bottle-feeding me milk right now… No cat in the history of the forest is going to believe this.
But the moment the rich, warm liquid hit her tongue, all coherent thought vanished. The milk was exquisite! It was sweet, thick, creamy, and packed with an intense burst of energy. It tasted better than anything she had ever scavenged in her life. She began to suckle greedily, her little paws pumping the air.
Yingying watched her with an expression of immense satisfaction. “Pretty good, right? My master makes the best formula.”
The leopard leaned in closer, inspecting the calico’s matted, muddy coat. The fur was clumped into stiff, gray spikes, and her face was smeared with dark forest soil. Yingying let out a low, rumbling vibrate. “Wow. You are incredibly dirty. So ugly.”
Uglier than my own cubs, the leopard thought.
To rectify the situation, Yingying lowered her massive pink tongue and gave the calico a firm lick right across the top of her skull, nearly engulfing the kitten’s entire head in her mouth in the process.
The calico: …Help me.
Su Wudeng turned around just in time to see the display, caught between a laugh and a sigh. “Yingying, leave her head alone, you’re going to give her a mohawk.”
Yingying pulled back quickly, grabbing the bottle with an air of innocence and turning her head away as if nothing had happened.
Su Wudeng focused her attention on the mangled shoulder, carefully clipping away the matted fur surrounding the laceration. “Don’t be scared, sweet girl. I’m going to clean this up and make the pain go away. I just need to give you a quick little shot, okay? It won’t hurt a bit.”
With practiced ease, Su Wudeng administered the local anesthetic, injecting it smoothly beneath the subcutaneous tissue while keeping a close eye on the kitten’s vital signs. The calico gave a tiny flinch but quickly settled back down into the towel.
Once the area was completely numb, the real work began.
Su Wudeng flushed the deep laceration with warm sterile saline, then used iodine-soaked cotton rounds to meticulously disinfect the surrounding skin. Then came the most agonizing part of the procedure: debriding the necrotic tissue.
Holding a surgical scalpel, Su Wudeng cut away the infected, dead flesh millimeter by millimeter. The process required absolute surgical precision and infinite patience; a fraction of a millimeter too deep, and she risked severing a major nerve cluster in the cat’s leg.
Finally, the wound was pristine and free of infection.
“You are the best patient ever! Look at you, almost done!” Su Wudeng praised softly, her fingers flying as she began running clean, even sutures through the healthy tissue to close the gap.
Once the stitches were secured, she applied a thick layer of medical salve and wrapped the limb securely in clean white gauze.
“There we go! All done, you brave little thing!” Su Wudeng gently stroked the cat’s ears. “You’re going to need regular bandage changes and strict rest for the next couple of weeks, though. Do you think you can stay here with me for a while?”
The calico gave a weak, sleepy nod. The heavy sedation was fully taking hold, rendering her lower limbs completely weightless. It was an incredible relief—the absence of feeling meant the agonizing fire that had consumed her for weeks was finally gone.
Enveloped by the rich, warm scent of milk and the cozy heat of the room, the calico felt as though she had been tucked back into her mother’s nest. Though her eyelids had fluttered shut, her paws instinctively stretched out into the air, kneading rhythmically as if she were nursing.
Su Wudeng smiled warmly, extending her hand so the kitten’s tiny paws could knead against her palm. The calico’s paw pads were incredibly soft, the healthy skin beneath the dirt a vibrant, pale pink—like tiny coral cushions.
Unable to fight the exhaustion any longer, the calico pulled her limbs tight and sank into a profound, healing sleep.
Su Wudeng let out a long breath, carefully lifting the sleeping cat and placing her into a secluded, quiet recovery enclosure. She used a damp, warm microfiber cloth to gently clean the rest of the mud from her coat. The little thing was so deeply asleep she didn’t even twitch.
Once the calico was spotless, Su Wudeng activated a silent, specialized warming vent inside the enclosure. Looking down at the peaceful creature, she whispered, “Get some rest, little one. When you wake up, I’ll have a massive feast waiting for you.”
Outside the recovery room door, the two orange kittens were standing guard like a pair of tiny, loyal knights. The moment Su Wudeng stepped out, they swarmed her ankles, meowing in a frantic, synchronized chorus.
“Is she okay? Did you fix her? Is Xiao Sanhua going to survive?”
Su Wudeng crouched down, scratching both of their heads simultaneously. “Don’t worry, boys. Your friend is going to be perfectly fine. The bad tissue is gone and she’s stitched up. We just need to let her sleep peacefully so she can heal, okay?”
The kittens immediately swallowed their loud cries, nodding their heads with intense gravity. “Okay! We promise we won’t make a peep! Thank you, kind human sister!”
Su Wudeng glanced back through the viewing glass at the resting calico. The cat’s chest rose and fell in a slow, rhythmic cadence, her breathing deep and unobstructed.
If only the little fawn were here, Su Wudeng thought with a twinge of regret. With its innate healing magic, Xiao Sanhua would probably be up and running by tomorrow morning.
But then again, that little deer has probably reunited with its mother by now. She looked out at the relentless downpour, a brief flash of worry crossing her mind before she shook it off.
“Alright, you two,” she said, turning back to the fluffy orange duo. “Let’s get some food into those bellies.”
She set down a row of small bowls and bottles on the floor, pouring a fresh batch of nutrient milk for the new arrivals, as well as checking on the Husky pup and the Snow Crystal Cats. Every single animal fell into a disciplined line, drinking contentedly.
The two stray kittens had been staring at the milk bowls with undisguised lust, and the second the bowls hit the floor, they buried their faces in the liquid, lapping it up like wild animals. After polishing off several helpings, they collapsed onto their backs, letting out loud, satisfied milk-burps.
Meow~
“The little squirrel wasn’t kidding. This human sister really is an angel!”
Su Wudeng froze, her hand pausing mid-air. “Wait… what squirrel?”
She had heard them mention a squirrel earlier through the translator, but she had been too focused on the emergency surgery to pay attention. Now that things had settled, something about that sentence felt incredibly strange.
Su Wudeng asked, “Did a squirrel tell you about this place? Did he send you here to find me?”
Her mind immediately flashed to Bengbeng. Could it really be him? He was the only wild animal who had consistently observed her rescuing and treating other pets.
The orange kittens were completely full and thoroughly warmed by the fire. They lay sprawled on the rug in a state of pure, lazy bliss, letting out wide, sleepy yawns.
Meow~
“Yeah, Bengbeng told us,” one of the kittens chirped drowsily. “Bengbeng said there was a strange, bald, two-legged beast living by the stream at the base of the mountain… wait, no, a human. He said a human opened up a massive postpartum care and pet rehabilitation center that specializes in taking in pregnant strays and treating critically injured animals.”
“That’s why we dragged Sanhua all the way here to see if it was true. We didn’t actually think it would be!”
“Yeah, I thought he was lying at first,” the other ginger kitten chimed in, rolling onto its side. “But Bengbeng swore on his life that he watched you single-handedly rescue that entire litter of dying Snow Crystal Cats and the abandoned Husky pup. He said if it weren’t for your facility, they would have been worm food weeks ago.”
The kitten blinked sleepily up at her. “He said you run the best pet hospital in the sector. Honestly, by this point, the entire forest probably knows about your center!”
Su Wudeng: “???”
What kind of wild, distorted rumors are spreading out there?!
Since when did I open a postpartum care facility and pet hospital?!
But as the initial shock faded, Su Wudeng’s eyes suddenly ignited with a brilliant spark. If Bengbeng was out there acting as a literal marketing agency for her cabin, this calico cat wouldn’t be an isolated incident. It was highly likely that other injured, sick, or desperate wild pets would start actively seeking her out!
Well… even though it happened completely by accident, it looks like my ultimate goal was achieved through a game of telephone.
I guess whether I like it or not… this care center is officially open for business!
