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Why can’t I wake him up?
Higgs’s voice had an edge of panic. For too long now he’d been floating in still darkness, waiting for the familiar light of Wilt’s consciousness to illuminate the world, but there was nothing.
Wilt will wake in time. He is safe, can’t you feel it? He needs to rest. His mind and body both need time to repair. He hasn’t been taking care of himself.
You mean we, Biore. We haven’t been taking care.
I don’t think there’s any significant damage. Nothing rest won’t cure.
What if he never wakes again?
You don’t believe that. Besides, that … thing … was not our enemy. You must have felt it, the familiarity. It spoke like it knew who we are.
It was a wildler. A very strong one.
You know what it was, Delco?
Rawick does. He recognised it immediately. He’s become
