[There's a quiet room, a small one, off to the side. It looks like it was some kind of conference room; there's chairs stacked up in corners and a long table pushed up against a back wall. It's not being used for supplies, so it won't get much traffic. It'll do as a place to breathe.
Aaron will be quiet for the first few minutes, getting the food down -- when had he eaten? This morning? How many hours ago had been morning? -- and getting lost in his own thoughts. He thinks about the moon-snake, the dots Julien saw, the waves, the other animals, the people out there, the bandages and thread and penicillin stretched thin between here and the only hospital.
Eventually, though, he'll come back to the present, enough to say,]
You did well today. I'm impressed -- you've come a long way.
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Aaron will be quiet for the first few minutes, getting the food down -- when had he eaten? This morning? How many hours ago had been morning? -- and getting lost in his own thoughts. He thinks about the moon-snake, the dots Julien saw, the waves, the other animals, the people out there, the bandages and thread and penicillin stretched thin between here and the only hospital.
Eventually, though, he'll come back to the present, enough to say,]
You did well today. I'm impressed -- you've come a long way.