Pretty much, everything went crazy. I was in disbelief. Stunned, actually.

I get up every morning. I've got my pain, my irks, and you think you're in bad shape. You see some of these guys, it takes them four hours to get out of bed where I can pretty much jump up out of bed. They go up there and compete, too. It'll make you forget about all your pain.

The Wheelchair Games have probably been the only thing that kept my mind together. I fell in love with those games pretty good.

Why do you look like cheese, Beka?" Nestor asked me quietly. "We've got help."
I was too flummoxed to tell him I hadn't expected help to come so fast. Miracles aren't for the likes of me, didn't Nestor know that? Only the nobility gets them.

I tell you, this is a lot to take in; I'm pretty much stunned.

I felt a little disbelief that we were actually done and that this was it. You spend three years working your tail off and you reach that final goal — I can't even explain how good it felt.