She considered him, her brows furrowed, before she pulled him closer, her arms around his waist. "I'm proud of you. You did the right thing."
She quickly drifted back to sleep, her body feeling warm, but unsettlingly small, as if she were simply bones.
He still retained the split second of tenseness that accompanied his awakening, but it had grown much shorter over time, and his eyelids fluttered as he woke.
