Nobody knew how long they sat in the dark.
At first people talked. Quietly, in little clusters, the way people talk in a hospital waiting room. Joon told the story of his fight three separate times, and it got a little more dramatic every time. Do-yun made Mina describe exactly what it felt like to get hit by a hammer while wearing Granite Armor, and she said it felt like being hit by a hammer, and he seemed satisfied with that. Somebody fell asleep and started snoring, and somebody else threw a shoe at them in the dark and missed.
Areum dozed off for a while with her head tipped against the glass. Echo and Seul got into a quiet argument about whose fight had been harder, which Seul won by simply refusing to continue it. Haneul sat near Jin the whole time with the broken staff across his knees, running his thumb slowly along its jagged end.
