Penitent - Chapter 28: General Favors

... son that the sun was able to shine through the top was to give those trapped inside an exact idea of how much time was passing. If there’d been no sunlight, no way to tell how much time had passed, then it would’ve passed much more quickly. With sunlight he was acutely aware of exactly how long he had been there. He would shiver his way through the nights, clutching his hands that he spent a large chunk of the day shattering, then he’d wake up and heal them before he ate breakfast. Once that was ...