Chapter 3Talking about what happened had brought everything back. I’d thought unloading might be a relief, but it wasn’t. I felt a hundred times worse. I wasn’t sure how that was even possible, but there it was.
I had used David as an excuse to escape the room, so I decided to follow through and head up to the fifth floor. When the elevator dinged, my body went into fight or flight mode as it remembered the fight with warpers. I told myself to stop being such a ninny and stepped inside. Moments later, I was in another finely appointed hallway, this one decorated in soothing tones of blue. I found David’s room and knocked gently. I guess it hadn’t been latched tight, because the door swung open with the light pressure.
Lying amid a dark blue sea of bedding, David looked pale and small. Li
