Urdon Pov
I could finally sit up on my own.
It had taken three weeks but I could push myself upright and stay there without the world tilting and that felt enormous even though it was the smallest thing I used to do without thinking. Freda had been bringing me the first portion of every meal and making sure I was drinking enough clean water and I could feel my body slowly doing the work of catching up on everything the famine and the big fight had taken from it.
She was not sleeping enough. I knew it and I had stopped saying anything about it because there was nothing I could say that would make her step back from what she felt she needed to do and I had accepted that about her somewhere during the long dark months we had come through together.
