CH494 Wrong Direction
***
Hours later, back in their inn suite, Alex's eyes snapped open.
He couldn't sleep.
He glanced at his wives and confirmed they were deep asleep.
Quietly, he extricated himself from the tight knot of limbs around him, slipped out of bed, and walked out of the bedroom.
He moved to the living room window, looking out over Camp Red Rock.
His eyes were deep in thought.
'…Sigh.'
Alex exhaled softly as he stared at the midnight moon.
It hung bright in Verdantis' skies, surrounded by stars glittering across the black expanse.
But the poetry of the scenery mattered little to him right now.
Though his gaze rested on the lone moon above, his mind was elsewhere.
'I can't keep waiting…' he thought.
The advancement of a significant number of his party members within the past week or so was a wake-up call for him.
It unexpectedly placed pressure on his shoulders.
