A/n: Thanks for your reviews, guys. This one is slightly later than planned and much too short. Sorry about that.
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Chapter 13: Sky
Five year old X8 313 woke with a start, wiping the sweat from his pale forehead. His large blue eyes, the origin of his nickname, Sky, turned dark as his pupils dilated in the dim light. He turned to the next bed, where another boy his age slept peacefully. Gracefully, Sky rolled off his bunk and crawled towards his friend.
"Still can't sleep, 313?" The boy said, without opening his eyes.
"I had the dream again," he confessed.
The other boy's dark eyes snapped open in concern. "The one where you're falling?"
"Yes. I don't understand, Mark, I've never fallen from anything. I have better balance than you do."
"You know its assault training tomorrow," Mark said.
"You'll stay behind me on the climbing, like always? So I don't get scared?"
"Like always, Sky," said Mark, smiling in the darkness. "Go back to sleep. It's almost dawn."
"Thanks, Mark." Sky crawled back over to his own bed and lay down. Minutes later, he was asleep.
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