Thank you very much! ♥ I'm so glad you like Alex--the next chapter is going to focus on him, so you should learn more about him soon.

And I'm so happy that the Aetherians seem creepy to you--I wasn't sure if I'd managed to make them creepy enough. There are actually some friendly Aetherians, too, but they haven't shown up yet.

Oh no, those are very helpful! Thank you so much for providing me with some prompts. I'll see what I can do with them!