“That sounds awful,” I said after he started describing his own nightmares. I knew his parents were dead, assumed as much since I hadn’t heard anything about them, but seeing them die was a different story. I had seen plenty of people die, but not my family. It was Jasiah’s death that still haunted me the most.
“It was for a while.” Several beats of silence rang between us. “But distractions helped me. I had to run this pack and keep moving forward, and I couldn’t afford to let it get to me.” My face must’ve fallen, because then he added, “Not that you should feel that way. You should take your time and not overdo it.”
I wondered how long it would take my nightmares to fade. They still came nightly, but they were always to different extremities. Normally, I didn’t wake up thrashing. “Did
