CHAPTER 38 — MASS.

SAME DAY

I spent the rest of the day with Dawn. She ate happily and cheerily. Talking about things that happened to her in her high school and recounting events to me that I could not even understand. Evening fell and Leya came in with a small bowl containing a weird liquid. She carefully dabbed the liquid on Dawn's face with a cloth and I wondered what the medicine could be made of that made it such a wound healer. I had asked Leya what it was at the time that she was still tending to Jereum's wounds, but she only smiled at me sheepishly and since then I had been too creeped out to ask her again.

Dawn winced as Leya brought the cloth to the slit at the corner of her lips. She tightened her locked fingers with mine and I looked at her reassuringly.

Leya finished.

"Thank you Leya," Dawn said. I had told Dawn her name earlier when Leya had brought in her dinner.

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