When I approached the camp with Ares again in the evening I was feeling a lot less confident than I had been in the morning, but I was pleasantly surprised that Ares and Jayne had both been right; the deafening noise was not so impossible to live with anymore.
It was easier to ignore, and people were far less interested in me now that I had been coming to the camp a little more often to drop things off.
I ignored Zaahra, and Aleks - which was easier to do because they were both easy to pick out from the other voices and ignore.
I had expected Ares to tell me he was proud of me and ask me to come back again in the morning, but he asked me if I would consider staying at the camp overnight and I decided that it was worth trying.
I had imagined living alone for far longer than this, but I
