Chapter Forty-Nine

Slowly, like through snow, my eyes flutter open, breaking the crust-lined around them with each bat. I must have been asleep long.

Yawning I try to recall what happened, The last thing I remember is…

It hits me, everything that would have happened if I passed out again. I jump out on my feet, drowsiness snapped out of me and take note of my surroundings.

Dark lit room, the smell of sweat and odd detergent, it's the medic room at one of Rey's mini-bases. It's the one we came to when Vern got shot.

Neil...T.V...where's Vern?

Shakily, with my head pounding, I navigate my way through the long and stuffy room out to the opening leading outside. It's another underground base, except there aren't any drugs or piles of unlaundered money laying around, just injured or sick allies.

Right into my first step out of the base I hear my name called, screamed more like it.

"Paige!!"