Celine is still asleep, and Kayden still takes her out every morning to the garden to prop up her body in the sun in vain, and Damian hasn't come back since he came out of his suite angry, distracted and lost because of Kira's return and her denial of the identity he gave her, and Lamara retreats in the room they gave her to take cover  between its walls.

She stood at the balcony, contemplating her surroundings, observing the trees, the sky, and the plants. Three hundred years she spent in that cave, during which she saw nothing but the ceiling of the cave, the stone houses, the siren, and...