Axel chuckled, but his smile was half-hearted at best.
“Axel?” Bell called to him with concern.
“It’s nothing,” he said.
“You’re worried about how Winter will feel about Alice?” she asked.
Axel took a deep breath.
“Right now, I’m more worried about what’s happening to her,” he said. “In the note, she said she was taking another treatment.”
Bell let out a mournful sigh.
“Why would she do that?” Bell asked.
“I don’t know, but she gave me a phrase… I think it’s to wake her.”
“Wait… if she gave you a phrase… she must have done something to protect herself, like a safeguard against losing complete control this time.”
Axel nodded.
“Alice told me she had a cave in her mind that she could see out of. She was aware that she couldn’t do anything to affect her actions or what she was told to do.
