I wasn’t sure what it was the finally gave me the strength that I needed to square my shoulders, that finally prompted me into taking a deep breath and walking into the tent—but whatever it was, there was nothing that it could have done to prepare me for what I confronted once I was inside of the tent. I could barely believe my eyes.
There was a second or two where I was fully convinced that I was hallucinating, that I had consumed something toxic while here, and that this was merely a trick of my mind.
But as the image didn’t fade, it dawned on me that what I was seeing, was real, that Dae was actually in front of me, standing on his knees. The only issue was that he was not alone. There were two people with him, people who I had no recollection of. There was something familiar about
