The Morning After

The party limped back to Palais Kinsky at dawn, battered and bloodied from a night that had seen them dismantle a flesh machine, dissolve a secret society, and watch one of their own get shot in the head. Varrio was barely alive, a bullet lodged somewhere in his skull after Thomas had been forced to put him down mid-rampage. Caroline was unconscious and pale, carried in by Adrien and handed off to the horrified Hartley family while the hotel scrambled to summon a doctor. Georgiana moved through…