Chapter 66

• I jolted and looked back to him. “I am trying, Victor, I really am.” I drew my knees up to my chest, hoping that was okay, I didn’t get up and wander, so it should be. “With the coaching, and more coaching, one way, then another,” I opened my hands and stared at them, “until my head aches and the flashes are then scrambled…” I squeezed my hands shut and remembered to look at him. To answer. “I need to climb, to get high and settle them down,” I nodded. “I need to move to sort through them. I love my tower and the ropes too, but they’re so closed in, I can’t climb as far when there’s a lid in the way.” I inhaled a big breath. “If feeling the eyes all over me is the only way I can have that space, that silence again…” I nodded. “Then yes, I have agreed.”
• I stopped and looked to see everyone looking at me. Most of the eyes looked sad, and I paused to think what I had done to cause that. I nodded and glanced around. “I’m okay.” I told them, so they would feel better.
• Victor cleared his throat. “You should have told me.”