Coming Out of the Deep
He could hear the crunch of leaves under distant shoes, a bee flying by, and the wind blowing against grass blades.
Every sound slammed into him, choking out reason, and he pressed his hands even harder against his ears. "Make it stop," he pleaded desperately. “Please… make it stop.”
But Reed couldn’t make it stop. No one could. Lake would have to learn to live with it, just like he had. Swearing under his breath, Reed ran back to the car, flung the door open, and reached into the glove compartment.
He took out his noise-cancelling headphones, which he had specially designed and reinforced, to drown out the world. He always kept them close by for days when the world became too much, because
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