Jae closes his eyes. She's comforting; there's something about her that makes the static in his head (that feels like a color, that smells like midnight) ease a little. Maybe it isn't her, maybe it's just being with someone else.

He wonders if he'll go to prison if he's killed Hilmi.

In the dark behind his closed eyes, for a moment he feels like he's not in his body anymore - like he's laying down, held down, in the dark-

Jae doesn't startle, but he opens his eyes again.

Sleeping is going to suck, tonight.