"Mhm and hopefully soon he will able to get his stitches out. It might be a few days. I'm sure glad you help your dad and mom make people better."

It was hard work getting Noah into the wagon in as painless a manner as they could, but given their practice, it had been getting easier. His increased mobility slowly also was making things a bit better on them. Once him and Alena were both lifted up into the wagon, Elann took off her bow and arrows and climbed up with Aimee into the back. There was bedding and the tent to straighten up that the guards had thrown into the back, but by the time the wagons started moving, Elann had rolled it up and set out the rugs and pillows to once more make a bed for her husband and this time Alena when she slept. He had settled up near the front with a pillow at his back and the fur blanket over him. Alena was fast falling asleep and Elann came to lay a blanket over Aimee as she laid facing the walls of the canvas.

As they bumbled down the road, and Elann finished her work, her eyes kept on Noah and could see that he wasn't able to sleep. She came to sit next to his thighs and whispered to him.

"Do you want me to get you some of the tea?"

A loving hand then came to brush him lightly on the thigh. Her soft smile and large eyes peered into his in the darkness. All notion of sleep had gone from Elann and she was clearly trying to soothe him a little from the pain he had to endure that evening.