Occasionally, he is awakened from a dead sleep in the night. One moment he is fighting one enemy or another, usually losing, and the next he will be sitting up in his bed, gasping for air, bed sheets soaked through with sweat.
Normally, he just has to see them, his family, to feel at ease. But there are those times when Alanna is away, Thom and Alan are in Corus, and Aly is off, doing whatever she does.
George's only comfort is his ear collection. It reminds him his enemies from long ago are gone, dead. Haunting only his dreams.