In the morning, my body was very tired, my mind was not. My legs were sore from their position all night long and my muscles were stiff from not being used. I gently shifted myself and felt the sharp pain of my broken leg, still healing itself. I try not to notice my dry mouth when Lydia walks in and brings the food cart in, still tainted, and walks out with it later on. I open the window and catch some of the falling snow in my mouth and use that to satisfy myself for now. Carmen comes in with Gabriel on her arm. She plants him in the room and sits in the wicker chair, watching him with a kind eye. I adjust myself on the bed and scoot farther away from the two as Gabriel puts up his two hands.
"Okay, I've seen what you can do, like some sort of white widow--funny Avengers joke--but I wan
