#Chapter 48: Madness

Nothing happened. I stood there for one moment. Then two, then three, then four. Five minutes turned into ten minutes, and soon, I was staring at a dead body with a film of blood over its chest for more than twenty minutes. Exhausted, I collapsed onto the floor next to his cot. I must have been too late; his organs had turned cold. Maybe I took longer than I thought I did, too delirious to notice. The shock invading my system must have forced me into a forced sleep. I slipped into unconsciousness, right through the cracks. My mental fingers dug into the consciousness to avoid falling through, but there was no use; I fell right through like liquid. “Hey, at least you tried. That’s all I care about,” Alan said to me as he adjusted Theo’s form, narrowing his eyes at the target. “Trying isn’t enough,” I insisted to him, outraged. He chuckled, rolling his eyes. He didn’t even bother to look at me. “You’re too hard on yourself. It’s