Chapter 306.1
If she had really been out for three days, then Alber’s predictions must have been correct. Eugene was amazed by how accurate the woman’s guess had been.
Blinking the sleep away, she found it strange to suddenly be awake. It seemed like she had just said goodbye to Alber and now she was here. She couldn’t tell whether time had flowed in the dream as it had flown in reality, she had no sense of time at all. She had been in such a deep slumber.
Then, she turned back to Kasser as he stared at her with a worried look.
“Did I not tell you that it would take some time?” she asked. “When I told you not to wake me, I must have mentioned it.”
He nodded dejectedly. “You did,” he mumbled. “You told me it would take a few days.”
The problem was that Kasser had not known what to expect. “A few days” didn’t exactly give him a specific amount of time. He had even started researching how long a person could go without eating and drinking, worried that Eugene would be out for longer.
He hadn’t been able to do any work while she was asleep, like he was overcome by an ominous feeling that she would never wake up.
Kasser had stared at her sleeping face, fighting all his impulses to wake her up. He would have to pace the room just to keep himself from shaking her up to wake up.
He had suspected it had something to do with the letter Eugene had received from the Muens. He blamed himself for even letting her go near such a strange thing. It took everything in him to not race to the Muens and accuse them of treachery.