6- Break Away
It was dangerous to get attached.
When you got attached to things or, more dangerously people bad things happened. You found your mindset changed, your body responded differently, emotions you had never felt before emerged from nowhere and the worst of all by far, you let your guard down.
Thoughts of them play on loop in your head. They way they laughed, their favourite foods, how they would have laughed at that dog. Sleeping was no safer. Dreams and nightmares revolved around them, being no more irrational or rational than the usual daydreaming when awake.
He had to break away