Drabblish: 'Silent Assent'

Another in the on-going series of gap-fillers set in artaxastra's post-AWE universe. This one is also an entry for last week's 'Truth' prompt at Black Pearl Sails. Many thanks to hereswith for editing and suggestions.

( The first night he'd slept like a dead thing (discounting the sort of dead things that frequent the Locker, of course, which don't sleep at all, really)... )