Alice was aware that if she wasn’t careful with how she handled everything, it would surely open some wounds that she had taken years to heal, but with everyone having their own things going on, she felt like she was becoming stagnant. Oliver and Atlas were working together, and Matt was Helios’s hired bodyguard. Amber never left her room, but before, she had been working on her Etsy store, and even Ani had become more focused on her photography pursuit, with Alec and Max being at home with the former having officially become the latter’s assistant. She was the only one who didn’t have anything going on outside of their friend group. And this ridiculous search with Cai gave her some sort of meaning, and she would have to latch onto it to have some sort of mundanity, to know she existed out
