"But you were sleeping. You need to sleep when you're healing." He shuffled closer, sitting on the edge of the bed and reaching a hesitant hand to Krem's brow, fingers barely stroking, brushing his hair back like he had.

"And it was early when I came in. The bats were still out and not thinking of returning." So sometime before four in the morning, when the bats started to come back, ahead of dawn. "I can help with the aching. Or I can go and get you breakfast, if you'd like."