My processing skills weren’t cooperating. I couldn’t say how long we stayed there, crouched, or sitting on the ground. We all seemed to be suspended in shock. How could this have happened? Of all my friends, Wren was the one I worried about the least. I never thought he’d be the one we lost. I rested my face in Talon’s neck as I sucked in a breath. My brain couldn’t accept these pieces together. They didn’t fit. Jagged edges butted up against smooth spaces and vice versa. Worst of all, I didn’t