For the longest moment all Blake could hear was a seemingly ubiquitous high pitching ringing in his ears. He could see Nats and Jill speaking urgently to one of the Italian girls, he could even tell that they were shouting from the looks on their faces, but he couldn’t seem to make sense of their words. They were standing right in front of him, but he got the impression they were somehow far away. It was as if his brain had shut down. He hadn’t managed to grasp anything that’d happened since he’