By the time we left the studio, I was feeling far better than I had when I came in. That pressure that was pushing back on me had lessened but it wasn’t entirely gone.

“We have the next week off the competition,” Craig noted. His voice was low but in the dead of night it rippled through the air like a scream.

“Yep.” I pooped the ‘p’ at the end. “I don’t know why they're giving us so much down time. After the first challenge, you would think they ...