Being taken and being tortured and manipulated does things to the brain. Koa is exhausted but he also can't sleep without being awoken from a nightmare. He wakes up cuddled into kal grabbing on to his shirt so tightly, the fire is still burning. Kal looks concerned, "ya okay darlin'"
"Yeah just tired" he lies. He cuddles more into kal and tries to go back to sleep but he can't the memories just keep coming back and he feels like he's squeezing the bottom of kal's shirt so tightly.
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When the sunrises everyone is up and ready to go. The day is long. They get into a fight koa gets hurt out of exhausted and unable to dodge.
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They stop at an in for the night. The night is rough. In the middle of the koa wakes up screaming. He doesn't hear the running footsteps of kal and kin as the tears are streaming down his face and he is shaking so bad struggling to breathe. A hand touches him, he flinches away he's panicking. He's holding his scarf tight hiding his face in it. "Koa it's just me" he can hardly hear kin's voice, "it's okay. You're safe, we aren't going to hurt you, we are in an inn" kin sits in front of koa trying to catch his eye while trying to calm him down. Kal is hovering, Ax is too, he just barely sees the two in his peripheral.
Kin manages to calm him down. No one moves from where they are. It's a good thing that there are two beds in his room as no one wants to leave him alone. Kin, Ax and Kal stay in Koa's room for the rest of the night making sure he got some sleep.
