[ Kaveh nods. Night terrors... he's had similar experiences himself, waking up in the middle of the night in a panic, checking the contact list on his watch, flicking through name after name to comfort himself before falling asleep, airbud case in his hand.

And yet Basch says that compared to home, he'd rather stay here.

It says a lot, Kaveh thinks, about the place from which he's come. ]

You don't have to comfort me. In the end, I think we all have the same worries, don't we? The same reasons to be afraid. All we can do is hang onto each other.