After leaving the city center, Stella Sterling found a spot under a bridge and put Yara Sterling down.
Many homeless people usually gathered here, but with the heavy snow, they were nowhere to be seen.
She put Yara Sterling down, thought for a moment, and then, out of a twisted sense of "kindness," found a ragged cloth to cover her. She also left her two steamed buns. She wanted to keep this person alive to suffer slowly. 'It wouldn't be any fun if she died so quickly.'
After doing all this, Stella Sterling planted a tracking device on her. Only then did she get on her vehicle and head back toward Mirefall.
The snow started falling again along the way. By the time Stella Sterling got back to her residential community, a thin layer of ice had formed on her clothes, and her face was almost purple from the cold. She was shivering uncontrollably when she finally made it home.
