ERIK
After dinner - a quite meager one for me, since Rhys had stolen basically all of my pizza despite having his own - I went down to the pack's break room in the basement.
After the day I'd had ... I needed to decant, badly. Take a break and get some alone time.
But most of all, I needed just to turn my head off and put a stop to the endless flood of thoughts and emotions that had been crowding my brain since that afternoon - I needed something to keep every neuron completely focused.
So, I plopped down on the sofa and grabbed the PlayStation controller.
For a while, it worked - my mind and senses were immediately absorbed by the game, blocking out everything else and drawing me into that parallel dimension. No more Devon, no more Clayton, no more anything.
At least until a fa
