Bride of the Human Alpha
"You disrupted their timeline by stopping Manel. But you didn't stop the movement. They'll adapt, find new leadership, continue forward."
I absorbed this, feeling the weight settle over me. We'd won the battle but not the war. Not even close.
"There's something else," Celeste said. "Something I need to tell you specifically, not just for intelligence purposes."
"What?"
"Morgana—the vessel we were trapped in—she wasn't entirely artificial. Manel used a real person as the base. A young witch he captured twenty years ago. Her name was Morgana originally. She had natural talent for bridging magics, so he... hollowed her out. Filled the shell with the rest of us."
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