Twenty-Nine
Chase is gone when I wake the next morning. I go hunting for some food in the kitchen, and that’s where Gaius finds me to tell me the news that Chase has recovered and is out on another mission already. “I’m sorry you didn’t have a chance to speak to him before he left,” he says to me. “I know you’ve been waiting anxiously for him to wake up.”
“That’s okay. I actually spoke to him during the night.”
“Ah, wonderful. Did he seem all right to you? He was very quiet this morning. I couldn’t get much out of him.”
“Um …” I pick up an apple from the bowl on the kitchen table and roll it around in my hands, wondering how much Chase would want me to reveal. “Well, he did just spend a week trapped inside nightmares of the past. He probably needs a little time to get his head back in
