[She won't cry long, if only because sobbing like that makes her shoulder ache. When she calms, she...she's not shaking as hard...]

[Gentle...h-he's being gentle. E-everyone she talked to in the floating thing had...seemed concerned for her... C-could it be true? Or maybe she was sleeping and this was all a strange dream...maybe from the medicine Papa had given her...]

[She was pretty sure she wasn't sleeping...]

[She might look like it now, though, as she settles, curled up in Lea's arms.]