CHAPTER 3
The Tomb GuardianSeveral weeks passed in which Jack resisted any discussion on the matter with Emma. He tried to get his life back as it had been before the dreams started. He went drinking with Eliot and his other friends and treated Emma, when she was in their company, like a stranger, except when he made barbed jokes about the New Age, which she interpreted as criticisms of herself.
At first she was hurt and upset by his treatment of her, and then began to resent it. By the time he was ready to ask her help again she did not want anything to do with him, and told Eliot that if he wanted to see Jack he would have to see him alone.
Jack made sure he drank so much he fell into bed in a stupor most nights, and if he had any nocturnal adventures, he certainly could not remember
