Well, not the operation, but the part where they would give him medicine to make him sleep. A sleep he couldn’t wake up from. The lady doctor, the one that Jason knew, had come by and talked to him and his mom for a little while after it was already dark out. She seemed nice enough, but Nathan didn’t trust her like he did his friend. He hoped Jason would come by before the operation began. He wanted to talk to him. He had no idea whether he could go to the cave from that sleep or not and he wanted to ask Jason what he thought. He asked the lady doctor about dreams and she had made a funny face, said she was pretty sure people don’t dream in the medicine sleep (she called it a long doctor word that started with an “a” that Nathan couldn’t remember). Still, these weren’t really dreams, so Nathan felt uneasy. Maybe that didn’t apply to him at all. All he knew was that if he went to the cave, he might not be able to get back on his own like he had before and that felt pretty scary.
