Location:Seven Peaks — Formation Hall, Spirit Garden, Command Center
Date/Time:TC1856.06.28 (Dawn to Evening)
Four days after the Confederacy visit, Elian stopped sleeping.
Not insomnia — something else. The eight-year-old would lie in his bed, eyes open, staring at the ceiling with the unfocused gaze that Aren had learned to recognise as the Pillar Soul doing something the rest of the world couldn't perceive. Aren would watch from his bed across the room, frost spiraling involuntarily from his fingertips in patterns that mapped whatever his roommate was sensing.
On the third night, Elian sat up at two hundred hours and said: "There's someone else."
