216 Losing Control

Some time ago…

"Where's Hopi?" Frey asked as soon as he woke up after the fight with Ashtehar.

Wade stepped forward and put a hand on Frey's shoulder: "He..didn't make it."

Oliver pulled his knees to his chest. "I'm sorry. I could only save one."

'Oh,' Frey thought. He wandered out of sight of the others, further away from the section of the forest that had been lit on fire, where Hopi's corpse was. 'They had to save one,' he thought. 'That means if I hadn't charged out of the formation, Oliver could have saved Hopi. If I had just restrained myself a little more or if I had been stronger, this wouldn't have happened.'

Back to the present…