It was the middle of the night when I was startled fully awake. I’d been sleeping lightly, following the pull of the Brothers. Now Christof was rising to take his turn at watch. He Looked over at me and motioned me back down. I should rest, this was just his turn.

My eyes were wide open, though. I rose and stretched.

“I’LL just sit with you for a moment,” I smiled quietly.

“For some reason I’m too restless to sleep.”

The men relented. I was awake and not at all sleepy. It shouldn’t harm me to sit up for a moment. I felt the other four fade into Light slumber as Christof and I walked toward the cave opening.

I’d experienced them take watch in the dreams. It was always the same. They took in the surrounding area and then settled on a place where they could monitor their Brothers’ safety most effectively.

He remembered nights they’d actually been attacked by things in the night. There were things to look for, telltale noises that would indicate something creeping up on us. It wasn’t hard to

other’s company until his turn ended. Kein met us as we walked back to the thin sleeping pallets. He bid us a good rest and

and I tagged along for the rest of the day.

I was dirty, achy, and barely rested. Sleeping deeply was prohibited and for some reason I

by their own circumstance, but worried about me. A human, they believed, was too

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how some humans lived. They subsisted on mountains in worse

We were fed and had

Nu-reeh and she could do with us what she wished. She could keep us miserable or comfortable for even the smallest reason. The sooner we did her bidding without questioning, the less

this much work into making us feel

she’d encouraged independence. Something had changed, we just didn’t know what it was. Evan would ask around once we got around the other men,

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