In the security wing, Huo Wu sat on his bed, staring at the wall, beginning his confinement.
In the private medical facility across the city, Lin Yue and Mei Fang were being treated, their conditions slowly stabilizing.
At the training center, six teenagers were being settled into their new lives, given food and clean clothes and the promise of a future.
At the orphanage, traumatized children were being comforted by caring staff, beginning the long journey toward healing.
And in a demolished building on the outskirts of the city, cleanup crews worked to erase all evidence of what had happened there, they had to completely destroy the place.
The night was over.
But its consequences were just beginning.
And tomorrow, when everyone woke up, there would be questions.
So many questions.
But for now, for these last few hours before dawn fully broke, there was peace.
Temporary. Fragile. Built on foundations of lies and blood.
But peace nonetheless.
