??? POV
Somewhere in the Empire’s Western Territories
“Daddy, do you think Mommy will come back?”
The sound of my beloved son Morgan’s voice woke me up. I had just come back from today’s work, and I had just finished cleaning up after our dinner. I squinted at the apartment light. I didn’t realize I had fallen asleep.
I went across the room and switched the mana lights off except the one in our bedroom, where I share a queen-sized bed with my son.
Except for the usual house creepy crawlies, the apartment lay quiet. It was a far cry from my old life, which seemed only yesterday.
I had been a happily married man, despite all the missing puzzles that I could not seem to pull out of my memories. I lived with my wife, Nautia Blackwood, and 3-year-old son, in a commune of human hunter
