Alicia's POV

Mandy and I had both gone back to the rooms Axel had arranged for us. My room was tucked beside Axel's study—a modest space, but one graced with a careful elegance that spoke of deliberate thought. Every fixture, every ornament, bore the distinct craft of the Silverpeak Pack, now rare and irreplaceable artifacts after our pack had been reduced to ashes. These objects, relics of a better time, had ceased production long ago; yet here they were, painstakingly ...