Chapter 242

“Doc is going to let her sleep; we should take turns sitting by her until she’s more with it. I’ll ask Sierra, too. Maybe we can rotate and switch out femmes for a few days to comfort and support her. So she’s not alone.” I don’t know what else to do as I was so young and surrounded by grief when I lost my family that it was completely different. We have been at peace for years, so the horror of losing our people isn’t as numbed out as it was a decade ago. I have no experience of how to comfort someone else in this way when I was never comforted in any way at all. “Luna Alora, Luna Alora!” A wolf bursts into the med bay, startling us out of our huddled somber and making me jump with the speed and urgency he shoots in. We spin on him, glaring to pipe down, seeing as he startled the crap out of everyone. “What is it?” I ask in a harsh tone, hating how panicked he looks and the raised high pitch of a distressed tone coming through his words. My stomach churning in unease at this interrupt