The Night Before

Sophia's POV

I did not plan to sleep and so I did not try.

This was a lesson I had learned in the first years after Leonidas died — the specific, practical wisdom of not fighting the night when the night was going to be what it was going to be regardless of the fighting. Some nights required sleep and some nights required something else, and the ones that required something else were better spent in honest wakefulness than in the exhausting, unsuccessful negotiation between ...