“Okay,” he said quietly in reply her rejection of his idea. He figured he wouldn’t press it, dropping the issue and leaving the decision up to her in the end. She brought up wanting to meet his family, the tone of her voice softening. He didn’t find a great amount of joy in the words, not because they weren’t hopeful, but because his mind wasn’t particularly wandering to the impending meeting of the rest of his family. So, he hummed simply to say he heard her, shifting a little on his side to tuck a pillow under his head.

“It’ll be nice,” he managed to say, bringing a hand up to feel his own forehead. He set it back down, feeling as if his temperature was relatively normal for what he usually had. As the day progressed the Kelvic was feeling progressively worse, not aided by Elann’s growing pain and discomfort as well. Where he once felt he would be able to get up and go about relatively easily, he was now starting to feel physically weak and he couldn’t tell if the ache in his abdomen was from Elann or from himself. Furthermore, the muscle weakness was accompanied by bodily aches as well, aches compounding on top of sore muscles and wounds.

The degradation of his condition didn’t surprise him, as it was something he’d been through a few times before. He could only hope it wouldn’t last long or wouldn’t be as bad as it could be.