This recent ordeal hit Hector Grant pretty hard.
For the next few days, Hector Grant mostly kept to himself. He didn't speak, nor did he mention going out to check on the situation again.
Seeing Hector Grant in this state, Sierra Sullivan and the others didn't try to comfort him.
Hector Grant was a grown man who had been through a lot. There wasn't much he couldn't figure out on his own.
It was just a matter of whether he was willing to accept it.
Clearly, Hector Grant was not willing to accept it yet.
But their circumstances wouldn't change just because he refused to accept them.
This was something Hector Grant had to work through on his own; no one else could help.
Sierra Sullivan, however, had grown accustomed to being cooped up here.
In a way, life here wasn't so different from life in the Subterra—both meant being confined to an enclosed space.
