“And now here we are,” said Ralph.
“Everyone cozy?” I said.
“It’s kind of nice,” said Sylvia. Her voice sounded sleepy.
“Sounds like we’re all drifting off to sleep,” said Ralph. “Is that really what we should be doing now? Won’t everything just slip away from us while we’re asleep?”
“We don’t have anything near us,” I said. “There’s nothing to slip away from us.”
“I mean Naomi. She seemed to know something about what was going on and now she’s completely gone. We’ll never find her again.”
“I wouldn’t worry about that,” said Sylvia. “She’ll find us.”
Their voices were distant sounds buried in the fog of their previous words. I was a little amazed that the fog was still blanketing us, and I was still thinking about the other necessities, like water and food. What if one of us got hur
