Chapter 16
Alex woke with a start, certain he’d barely put his head on the pillow. One of those weird falling sensations he hadn’t had for years must have jerked him awake. He was weary enough for that, between working at the cannery, helping build out a couple of gardens, and setting up a handful of small wind turbines over the past week.
An odd hissing noise in the darkness cleared the sleep from his brain in an instant. No, not quite like the snakes they’d disturbed in old garden boxes. That was Etan, shifting his legs under the sheets. Alex didn’t remember any nightmares for a few days, but he didn’t need to check the time. It would be just after three. The nearly six hours since they’d gone to bed had passed in a flash.
He jumped again at Etan’s shout.
“Not you! No! Let me do it,
