Axel spent the next almost two hours telling Corrine of his history with Alice.
He told her about how they had met at his first visit to the Blood Moon and about the Bitter Night that was used on him, though he did keep Holden’s name to himself.
He told her about the boy that waited for him and the ‘game’ they had played. And how Alice, little eight-year-old Alice, had been the one to save him that day. Leading the monster away to chase after and attack her instead.
He told her about how Alice had been given many roles to play, many missions to carry out, almost none of which she remembered. But also about the way that Alice had shaken and cried in her sleep, and how he wondered if some part of her did actually remember.
