Running Out of Options

Around two weeks later, I began seeing the strain between Ren and Shin. Usually, I didn’t get to see much of Shin except for the rare occasions that we would run into each other as I travelled from Ren’s tent to the medical tent. It was rare for Shin to visit the medical camp and he rarely visited Ren’s tent either.

However, Shin has been coming over to Ren’s tent very often as of late. Most of the time he wouldn’t enter and when he did the two of them wouldn’t discuss anything serious in front of me. At first, I had attributed that to the confidentiality of their work. I only found out a little later that that wasn’t entirely the case.

“I told you before, Shin. We will not discuss that here…” Ren said sternly as he turned to stop Shin from following him into his tent.

The edge in Ren’s voice caught my attention. It seemed like the two men had been arguing about something on their way back to the tent and now Ren was putting a complete stop to it. Shin sighed loudly before nodded a