Chapter 26

"Regardless of the type of gun used, there is always one fact that remains true. Bullets hurt. And when they enter your body, they damage you.

"But the loss of blood that comes after is much more dangerous compared to the bullets. Bullets only hurt when they move through you. Once they stop, only pain lingers. There's not a lot of damage from a stationary bullet in the body

"The loss of blood makes it so that the body cannot function at its peak, not to mention how your body will feel heavier and heavier. Take note not to get hit."

The speech I received on the first day when I trained to handle a firearm plays around in my head. It sounds like a radio or one of the voices on those black and white shows where the voice's lower pitch is amplified.

I slowly drift into my body. It seems to take hours for me to regain any feeling of my hands or my toes. But as if I'm rising out of the water into the air, I slowly surface into my body. Slowly, though.

And as I surface my head begi