Vax glanced back in the direction of their building, nodding them that way, though he didn't start off on the most direct path. They could walk and talk as well as stand around. And a bit of leg-stretching rarely hurt matters.

"I know that before you said you didn't want to talk about it, how you left things when you got here," he started. "And that's fine, if you don't want to talk to me, or even if you're not ready for talk quite yet. I've never claimed to be very well-adjusted myself. But I will say that things that haunt you in your dreams don't just go away on their own. I think all of what happened to you needs to come out, one way or another, or it's going to keep tearing at you."