<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ffcc">Alexi walked into the room, before stopping in shock, staring at the...total destruction of Lucian’s study. The fur rug in front of the fireplace was bunched up against a wall, soaked in spots. The arm of his couch was broken completely off, splinters everywhere, the cushions scattered across the floor. A table turned on its side, the crystal vase shattered across the floor as if it had been thrown, flowers interspersed throughout the glittering shards. Picking his way through all of it to lucian’s bedroom door, he leaned against the frame, eyeing the two of them with a half amused look on his face.</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4dffa6"> “So… were the demons successfully exorcised?”</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ffcc"> he asked, with a bit of Ayla’s snark.</span>