So, probably not walking the dog as any kind of favor: the dog might be walking him. Jude doesn't dig in to the hows or whys of it--some weeks Parker didn't sleep either, or Charlie would save it all up until his next day off and sleep for sixteen hours straight. Without a nightmare to wake him, Jude sleeps just fine. He has to imagine what chases a person day and night.

Different kind of nightmare, probably.

"Isn't that spring nearby," he asks, eyeing the dark edges of the field. He has no interest in the water itself, but it might be warmer around it, and it's never seemed prone to the dangers of the rest of the canyon.