"Looks like the Warden Mansion plopped itself right on human turf," Jett said after he and his maids finished assisting the commoners.
They were now on his private floor. Jett stood at the window, watching steam rise from the bonfire below, where Roberto and the others slept in the fire's warm embrace. The children and women rested in the maids' bunk beds. Mia had warned the women—never the children—that approaching her bunk was forbidden and that setting foot on Jett's floor would be worse than death.
Jett rolled his eyes when she reported her precaution.
"So, first clue why it picked me: it wanted a human. That's why it parked itself on Blue Empire turf, right in House Stormcloud's backyard. If I chat up the duke, maybe I pop a side‑quest to wake Eleonora."
