Zoya’s P.O.V
For a couple of long moments, I merely sat there, letting myself feel the weight of my mom's words, letting the gravity of each cut sink in.
It was not long before it was time for me to go back in. I had become so sleepy that I could hardly keep my head up, and I caught myself nodding off so many times that I lost count and decided that I had to go back inside and sleep.
It must have been pretty late at night, or rather, early in the morning, because my mind was all but blank at this point. After all, there was a limit to how much suffering a person could take before their mind just stopped working.
I went to check on the man once before going to bed. I checked his temperature and observed that it was slowly going back to normal. In fact, his fever had significantly reduc
