#Chapter 268: Life Goes On

Agnes The weeks following the destruction of the Lunaris Stone passed in a blur. Elemental Enterprises, of course, was immediately shut down by the authorities. Every known international law enforcement agency descended on Richard’s territory, working alongside Richard and us to document the crimes and identify the victims. It was so much worse than we initially thought. The facility had housed over three thousand elementals, many of whom had been there for years. Some had been born into captivity, never knowing a life outside those stone walls. Others had been lured to the area under false pretenses—job offers, vacation packages, hiking trips. Henry and Krystal, for example, had been lured out drinking with a man who claimed to have a business proposition for them. He had drugged them, and when they woke up, they were locked in a cell far beneath the earth. And all those missing persons cases in Richard’s territory over the years? They weren’t ac