POV: King Alexander of the Southern Alliance

Chaos was a beautiful thing.

I watched my soldiers secure the transformation center and couldn't help but appreciate the perfection of the moment. Lady Macbeth unconscious and bound. Ferdinand broken and compliant. The Prospero girl under my control. And an entire campus of traumatized students who would remember that the Southern Alliance had saved them when their own leaders failed.

This was how you built empires. Not through peace and ...