Chapter 9

After discussing some more with Prinarch Cole and Prin Odette, we dispersed and went our separate ways. Brooke lingered behind, gazing sadly at the hawk. She couldn't sense its emotions like she could a human's, but still it hurt her to see it like that. I could still feel a dull throb at the back of my head, the remnant of the earthquake that shook through my skull a few minutes ago. It was weird. They were getting more frequent. I would have to go see a doctor. Perhaps they'd be able to tell what was wrong with me. I'd put off going for as long as I could. Being a medical student, my mind was running rampant and imagining all the possibilities that could be wrong with me. Most of the diagnoses pointed to me dying... which I would much rather not be the case. If my university roommate Nikki was here she'd chastize me for overthinking things and tell me to go to bed. Sleep was her solution for everything. To her, sleep was a barrier against every