[POV: Sofia Lanka]

"She looked at me like I was a monster, Alistair. My own daughter looked into my eyes, and all she saw was a stranger she had been taught to fear. How do we come back from that? How do I ever look at her again knowing that her most comforting memory is the woman who tried to destroy us?"

Sofia sat on the edge of a frozen crate inside the makeshift hangar, her voice barely more than a hollow whisper. The adrenaline that had carried her through the avalanche and the standoff had evaporated, leaving behind a cold, paralyzing ache in her chest. She stared at her...