Avera had crawled back in bed and curled up sniffling. Why didn't anyone warn her it would be like this?! Her emotions were up, down and sideways and then she hadn't been able to keep anything down since Ryland and Aura had left. Plus she felt absolutely wretched that Caex was having to run about and deal with everything.

Ryland was cleaning the peas up and laughed. "On the bright side Caex, he's going to sleep really well once the sugar's run its course!" He called.