Rex was sitting in a chair when he woke up.
He felt dazed right away due to the effects of the beer. "Huh...? What...?"
He took a moment to gather his thoughts, not out of confusion, but because the light filtering through the high windows of the training hall indicated he had about forty minutes until sunrise.
He used the first few seconds of silence to think about where he was and what had happened between the archery range and this chair. "Ah fuck... I was so fucking close...!"
There was no noise in the training hall around him. Two of Theo's friends who had stayed the longest were asleep on the other side of the room.
They were sprawled in a way that suggested they hadn't intended to stay the night but had reached a point where getting home felt like more trouble than it was worth.
