The days that followed the great evacuation of Asylum were a strange mix of controlled chaos and exhausted relief. The Bastion Alliance fleet, now swollen with a million confused and emotionally raw refugees, became a floating city of makeshift hospitals and counseling centers.
Seraphina and her Lifeshapers worked day and night, helping the newly awakened citizens learn how to feel again, a task that was both beautiful and heartbreaking.
While the Alliance dealt with the people, Ryan and his core team dealt with the data. The final, parting gift from Lord Valerius was not a simple folder of files.
It was an entire shadow-empire's worth of secrets, a digital treasure chest so vast it took the Odyssey's powerful computers days just to sort through it all. It was a heavy, dangerous inheritance.
