24 THE PYRE Ian woke up, disturbed that the dream had not disturbed his sleep. It had been traumatic enough that he was sweating, just remembering it, but somehow, for the first time, it had not been sufficient to wake him from sleep. Friday April 19, 2019@ 9:00 AM He was grateful that he had slept for a solid six hours without interruption, but he was afraid that he might be becoming used to the darkness of the dream. A person cannot accept such inhuman concepts without in some small way becoming less human himself. That was enough of such worries, he decided. They were important, but the first task must always be survival. You want to be human at the end, but it would do no good to be a dead human. Freya was already downstairs, as usual. He put on his clothes and followed her likely

