This was a bit rough to write, because I decided to try out present tense for the dream sequence (something I'd done way back in "A Painful Hunger" when Niall dreams about being tormented when younger). Honestly it slowed the writing down considerably, and felt like a roadblock for every sentence. While I enjoyed the concept of using a different tense for dream sequences, and testing it out was valuable experience, I'll probably avoid it like the plague from now on. Dream sequences still have a chance of appearing, they'll just be normal third person.

Eli endures a nightmare in which he feasts on his closest friend...