Back before Faith was an agent, when her neglectful, drug-addicted mother was still alive, she'd get nightmares a lot. About her mother's tantrums and meltdowns, about the crimes that happened in their neighborhood, about Lily getting hurt or kidnapped...
Once Faith started straining under the Special Missions Group, a whole new set of nightmares plagued her nights in their assigned dormitories.
They did not allow trainees to room with one another, it prevented any of them from getting attached. It was just as well, since many of the trainees did not make it past the Commander's evaluations. Faith had dealt with her nightmares on her own, and when the pain and the loneliness became familiar, the nightmares receded.
The first time she killed, Faith did not dream.
That's when she knew th
