[ the dismissal is a reminder of a few of the other injuries she remembers owen sustaining while training the raptors — definitely worse than her largely harmless nails. that should make her feel better, but mostly, she's still embarrassed it happened at all. ]

Occasionally. [ vague as hell, way to go, claire. ] It depends on how long I go in between sleeping, I think.

[ when she's not at peak levels of exhaustion, she can usually shake herself out of the nightmares before they get this bad. when she's reaching the tail end of how long she can forcibly keep herself awake, that's when it's harder to control how deeply she gets sucked into the dreams.

and that just becomes a different kind of terrifying. ]

If I can just...wake up before it gets like this, it's fine.