After breakfast, Lara went in search of Agilus.
She needed answers—specifically about Alaric. A gnawing suspicion had begun to take shape in her mind, rooted in the prince's strange, erratic behavior. She feared his trauma ran deeper than anyone knew. Something told her that what she'd witnessed was more than grief or stress—it was something fractured. Something broken. She suspected he might be suffering from dissociative identity disorder, or a "split personality."
Alaric was still sleeping in the side room beside the living room. When Lara served him water, she added sleeping powder so he could calm down and rest. The relentless punching had caused his body a lot of stress.
