Why did you stop sleeping? he would ask. And against every ounce of logic inside her, she would answer. I fell asleep—the very last time I ever slept. And when I woke up, there was a man with a gun. He killed them both. He killed my sister. He tried to kill me. And the Renegades didn’t come … After that, every time I tried to sleep I would hear it happening all over again, until, eventually, I stopped trying. That was her origin story. The whole of it.
