Giving a choice is the first step in the “Rosarium,” where everything is decided by me—and only me. But you believe you have that infamous choice. Relax. I’m not crazy, and my goals are much more mercantile than it might seem. Everything has its price, and I’m asking for not the highest one.
Alicia Lester is the new poisonous flower of the Rosarium; she will resist, like many before her. Every personality has protective mechanisms—my task is to open them all, fix them, and replace them with my own. And she will give me what I want. Not a body—it’s too earthly. And not a soul—that’s too much.