"Auntie, Auntie wake up, please wake up Auntie! " Eden cries out, shaking her raven haired aunt.  The woman just groans, opening her eyes taking a minute to adjust to what is going  on.  "Auntie I'm scared!" Eden exclaims and Drea finally wakes up enough to understand.

"What is it, little Mesu, what's  wrong." Drea asks with alertness as she shoots up with a wince, the child immediately  clings on to her to Drea's surprise. This gesture  woke the black lab besides Drea bed up.

"I had a nightmare  and Aunt Georgie is hurt! So I came to ya!"  Eden says as Drea sighs, pulling the red blanket up so Eden could rest with her. The girl just compiled snuggling close to Drea.

Eden then looks to Drea who for once didn't have  any makeup on which revealed quite a few small scars "Auntie Drea, why there so many cuts on your face?" Eden asks curiously and Drea realizes that Eden never saw her or Georgie  without makeup on, and short sleeves since the guy shot the air conditioning.

Eden was too young to know the true meaning. What cool story could she make up for her scars? A look at Tomo gave her an idea. "Hey do wanna hear how I met Tomo?" Drea asks and Eden nods slowly

"Yeah, Auntie Drea tell please!"  Eden exclaims and Drea smiles patting the side of her bed so Tomo would hop up. "Well you know how I  used to go to work at that precinct? " Drea asks slowly, Eden just nods quickly reaching her hand over to pet Tomo.  "Well I was on a super secret mission alone, Drea starts glancing at Eden whose eyes sparkle with interest,  so Drea keeps going.

"I was playing  pretend. I was supposed to be a musician, and Tomo found me playing  my guitar. He liked it so much that he decided to play pretend with me and the rest is history. He is the best partner I have," Drea says petting the faithful dog

"Then why I no met him yet?" Eden asks in confusion and Drea grimaces. She was going  to shield Eden from that story, and keep this very vague. 

"Well sometimes teammates  get separated. That's what happened to Tomo and I. We got separated  after someone burst our bubbles, and we just found each other again." Drea says quietly, causing  Eden to look at her in confusion.

"Why he have scars? Aren't scars bad?" she questions curiously and Drea sighs. The kid was too smart for her own good. She then sees Eden's stuffed alicorn and smiles, getting a new idea. 

"No scars aren't bad, our scars tell stories, they prove we're survivors. Everyone has scars." Drea explains,  but Eden still looks confused. So she resorted to the story she was about to tell.

"You know I once heard a story about   a unicorn. Want to hear it?" Drea asks as Eden nods enthusiastically  and Drea sighs knowing  she wouldn't  get any sleep, at least Georgie  would get some tonight.

"Yeah!" Eden exclaims as Drea chuckles and gets comfortable.  Tomo looks equally as interested as he laid his head on Drea's knees, chocolate eyes sparkling with curiosity.

"Well, I believe the legend went like this, you know how unicorns have rings around  each section  of their horns?" Drea asks as Eden nods, holding  her plush unicorn up and pointing  to the rings.

"Yeah Tenny, have 'em see, 1,2,3,4. She has four rings!" Eden claims excitedly  as Drea nods, counting  the rings to make sure Eden was correct, and to think up the rest of her story. 

"Very good Mesu, as I was saying, a unicorn horn only grows as the foal grows to be strong and smart. As they learn to use their horns and fight the fights of life they get more rings. All of us grow Mesu, and just  like the unicorns we get our rings. They prove that we have grown, and survived that of what is grown in. Do you understand  Mesu?" Drea asks as Eden immediately nods her innocent eyes full of wonder.

"Yeah! Just like unicorn horns you  grow, they poov you grown and alive!" Eden says as Drea nods she had grown a lot since coming  here, and she was alive… for now. She was so glad that the four  year old hadn't  lost her innocence  quite yet. Eden always helped her to look on the bright side even when it was too much for Drea herself to do, and Eden was the only  one that could  make her feel like her scars weren't  actually  ugly.

"Yeah, yeah, that's  right Mesu now let's  get some  rest. Auntie  Drea has a long day tomorrow." Drea told her niece who nodded before they both  got more comfortable  under the red comforter. 

Within minutes  Eden was back asleep and Drea sighs looking  at Tomo. "Mo, do you think I  did good?" Drea asks and Tomo immediately  nods, poking Drea's side and the woman winces. Tomo looks at her slightly alarmed.

"You're injured too!" Tomo barks quietly trying  not to wake up the five year old. Drea just shushes him and looks at him with a raised eyebrow Tomo just glares at her. The two remained like that for a few minutes and Drea finally resigned with a groan.

"Fine I'm a little sore, happy?" Drea asks and Tomo nods slowly, "Listen let's not make a big deal about  this. Georgie has enough on her plate; it's just a few bruised ribs." Drea explains. Tomo nods in understanding as he huffs and curls up at Drea's feet nuzzling her in his way of saying goodnight. 

 "Good night Tomo, and welcome home." Drea tells him,  and the dog nods with another huff, and like that they went to bed. Although  it was a restless night for both of them.

………..

Meanwhile Michi twists and turns in her own bed tired and sensing something  was up. She was worried. It was a dangerous  world out there and was starting  to get dangerous  at the hospital, especially  someone like her involved  in helping  the passengers. The news didn't help, now non-passenger patients would scream and yell at her. 

That did not help her anxiety, even the other surgeons were being rude to her. Of course  she already had the one that thought she was too young, but now they thought her naive as well.

Michi was not naive; she has seen more things in the last year than most of these surgeons have seen in a lifetime. Her sister was in trouble and so was she. She had her own death warrant signed if they didn't figure this out soon. 

She sighs then petting her sleeping  puppy and kitten. They still had a long way to go with everything. Her phone buzzes and she sees Saanvi  asking if she could come over. Looks like it was a sleepless night for her as well. She texted  her back and got up from bed putting the tv on for white noise. At least she didn't  have to go through this alone.