Noah saw the small smile on Elann’s face as his eyes came to her again, refocusing. She hummed her telltale hum and went to lean in, stopping to bring up a finger to rid the remnants of the medicine his tongue may have missed when he licked his lips. She came in full then, pressing her lips to his before he reacted in kind to let her savor her romantic kiss before pulling back. His head came back to rest against the frame of the wagon as it rumbled beneath him. Her words came to which he nodded to, turning again to let his legs hang out of the wagon so that she could see his back.

After her moment, he moved to sit back again, swinging his legs back up and into the wagon to sit with them slightly spread apart as his back and head slowly reeled to land gingerly on the wooden frame again. She was going to let Emery know something and said she would be back in a little while, she needed to check on some things. She told him to open his end of the bond if he needed her. “Okay,” he said softly in reply, watching as she began to slip away from him.

Noah did open his mouth to protest her leaving. He enjoyed the quiet interaction, the kiss, and the quiet care she was giving him. Yet, he stopped himself from speaking as her feet landed on the ground just outside. He felt as if the quiet wouldn’t last if she stayed, even if he did want her to. So he shushed and settled back onto the frame, listening as her footsteps sounded into dullness and then a hushed whisper. 

Emery came with his little girl, Alena, and checked in on Noah. Emery gave Noah’s wounds an examination while Alena showed him her dolls, giving Noah one to play with. She kept her movements slow so that he could keep up. At first he was just waving the doll along with her, but upon observing her pitched voice to pretend she was the doll, Noah did the same for the other. They engaged in a small play session while Emery put a topical ointment on the injury. He said it would dull some of the pain and promote healing. Later, when Noah was healed more, Emery said he would put another cream on to ward off heavy scarring. While Noah didn’t particularly care about that, he assumed the doctor had many patients who did. Quietly, Noah accepted, waiting to be bound up in a new set of bandages that would be taken off in the evening. Before departing, he gave Noah a poultice to drink, setting the vial back into his medicine bag when it was empty. After that, Alena and Emery departed.

Noah felt as if he could fight through the drowsiness that came as a side-effect of the herbal tea, and he could, yet there was nothing to stay awake for. He had only drunk half of it, the cup was sat on the bench opposite of Aimee and him. He lied down on the bench over Aimee and fell into a shallow sleep, waking up when Elann returned if she did at all.