Setting down his lunch, Valyn scribbled on his paper as he was growing accustomed to.

I'm fine. And I feel miserable, but I'm fine.

How did people expect him to feel? He'd watched his own life start to slip away the night before.

Though he was beginning to wonder if he truly had a life to slip away anyway. Keman and Shana both thought he was dead. And he'd seen the notes on the board, about those who had died before coming here....

But that was just ridiculous.