Lyla
“She’s been sleeping for two days. She won’t even wake up to eat, we’ve barely gotten water into her.”
“I know Connie, but she was exhausted. There are a lot of emotions she hasn’t had to ever cope with. Her mind needed to shut down. She’s okay, I promise you.”
I could hear the worry and frustration in Conner’s voice and the patience in Kellen’s. He wasn’t wrong. My mind did shut down. The moment we were done killing Grover and Conner suggested we rest, I knew he saw something in my eyes. I knew he knew I had no more in me.
They both took such good care of me. They know things before I even do. I’ve never been this way before. These emotions were tearing me apart and I hated it.
I’ve never cared about other people’s feelings. They either dealt with the way I was or the
