As Verno slept, he was plagued with nightmares, as was usual for him. In each one, Onyx and Obsidian were always two or more steps ahead of him, always preying upon him, and he couldn't even speak up about what was happening. In another still, they'd found a way to make him into both a Panzer and a Fallen Luhna, and he was constantly in pain from then on in--and scorned by everyone that he knew.
He awoke with a start, giving a slight cry and punching the button on the side of his bed that was used to page the nurse. Right now, Verno jut needed someone to talk to, and he certainly wasn't about to fall asleep again. As he waited with baited breath for Erica's voice to come through the speaker, he tried to shake the image of the Panzer Luhna from his mind, his breath shaky.
"What do you need?"
He knew that this was not Nurse Erica's voice, so he cleared his throat and shakily replied.
"I need Nurse Erica down here... just send her, please."
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