The Morning After

Sophia's POV

I did not sleep.

I had known, sitting beside him in the long hours after Aldous had said what he needed to say and left us alone, that sleep was not going to be a feature of this night. The body makes its decisions in extremity without consulting the mind, and my body had decided that it was going to be awake for every minute of the darkness, fully present, not managing anything, not performing anything — just present inside the largest thing that had ever ...