Vanishing

After cleaning up the unexpected Gate, things settled down within the walls of LO49. For the next few days, Sunny and his cohort did not have a lot to do — they just had to rest, remain vigilant… and above all else, stay awake.

That task turned out surprisingly hard for Sunny. As an Ascended, he should have had no problem with keeping himself from falling asleep for a couple of weeks. However, because of the damage his soul had sustained, he felt weak and strangely lethargic.

Sunny was not under the same pressure as the Awakened stationed at the research facility. He could allow himself to fall asleep without traveling to the Dream Realm, but doing so while his soldiers were struggling to keep themselves awake did not seem like something that a good leader and a man of conviction would do.

Additionally, he had an unreasonable feeling that the moment he closed his eyes, something was going to go horribly wrong.