Captain Baldred learned to sleep without waking screaming in exactly the same way that he learned everything difficult in the months following his recovery from the soul-binding: by refusing to accept that the alternative was permanent, and by applying the same stubborn, methodical attention to the problem of his own mind that he had applied to every problem he had faced in thirty years of military service where the problems had mostly been external and visible and could be addressed with formations and tactics and the clear-eyed assessment of terrain.
His mind was harder terrain than any mountain he had navigated.
