Baby steps.

The first night Carlos stayed away from the shop wasn't good. Training was hard after being dormant for so long he was really strugglingly like he was before when he first started, it wasn't as bad but to Carlos that kinda mentally unmotivated him a bit.

And sleeping was worse, for the first time in a long time Carlos had his first dream, but it wasn't a dream, it was a nightmare.

Carlos’s face freezes as he looks around seeing the familiar bonfire and his old childhood home. He steps back, looking down at himself, his breath hitching as it hits him hard. When Carlos looks back up at the bonfire and he sees his dad there laying in it his head faces directly at him, his eyes popping out of his sockets as he reaches out towards his son. Carlos gags and takes a step back, his foot hitting something making him stumble and fall back, looking at what he slipped on and his eyes show panic and terror as he had slipped on his grandpa's head that's twisted with the knife still in his throat.

On eye contact blood streams out of the wound, seeming to leak out endlessly, he crawls back fast completely panicked looking between both the important role models he looked up to, he's seeing them again he never thought he would not in this way not like this he never wanted to relive this night, not ever.
The same shadow hand wraps around him holding him extremely tightly, Carlos can barely move, he starts to feel weak and he tries to scream but it comes out like he's gasping for air.
As the shadow hand turns him and forces him to see his sister's bed with the same mutilated and crushed corpse of his sisters right there.
He tries to yell out again but his voice is breathless and nothing comes out. He can't even cry as he's forced to relive this all.
He's forced to look again, his head turning and seeing his dead uncle and dead wife.

But after all of that the worst of it is seeing his mom again she's reaching out to him
“Please mom… get up… please” he pleads to the unmoving corpse, tears falling down his face as they flood his eyes like he's actually underwater.

When he finally awakens from that nightmare, he sits up looking at the two moons above him peeking through the gaps in the trees. He yells out his agony as he rolls onto his frontside and screams and cries into the dirt, he starts punching the floor stabbing his hands into the dirt just to shoot out lightning in anger. He might be crying but he's not that stupid to let it off into the air.

After he's done crying, he decides to use this early awakening just to train and find some food for himself. The training today is just as hard as any other one, like from what his dad had shown him.

After the training he moves onto trying to hunt, but when he starts and digs through his bag for some of his old supplies he finds food that was stored by Jonny, another sandwich. He probably slipped it in there when Carlos had his back turned. Carlos is genuinely wondering how everything is going back over at the shop, he thinks about it and it's probably the same but with someone way more rude and willing to speak the truth.

Carlos eats the sandwich alone watching as the sun rises while sitting on a tree. He wonders something. He wonders if the “inc” group has other connections anywhere else, or maybe if it has connected to the aegis order. Carlos wonders if the 3 people in command are at the same level of strength. He wonders if he could keep up with Zarek in a fight and if whatever foresight Jonny was thinking of with Zarek will actually be useful. He wonders if he's strong enough to stand up for the people of the town.

“Wait, what do I do now?” something Carlos wonders to himself.

“Before I had a goal to get to a town and that's what preoccupied my day… now what?” he thinks for a long moment then pats his clenched fist on his open palm.

“I'll get more info on the “inc” and train more before I can do something about them.” He finishes the food and stuffs the paper in his bag for fire later.

“Maybe I can also help out around the town since they seem to be fine with me. For now i think ill train more then rest for a while until its night then ill go see whats up with “inc.”” he nods and looks around before going deeper into the forest for more training.

Despite the fact Carlos almost got bored out of his mind when his extended training was done, when night time finally hit he moved back in the direction where the town is and when he gets there it's different. Groups what Carlos is the “inc” are on look out for whatever.

Carlos gets on the roofs of the building and uses what he remembers from when he was a kid. He uses that to jump roof to roof until he's at the middle of the towns park, that poorly made building is there with people who seem to be painting it, now carlos wants to see what he can ease drop and learn while trying to be sneaky.