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comfortable.”
    She pulled the blanket up around her shoulder and buried her face in it, taking in a deep, long breath, and then she swiftly grabbed the pillow and put it over her head. I just smiled and let the day do its job.
     

Chapter Four
     
    When I awoke I found Shyanna halfway under the bed. Her head was sticking out but the pillow was still covering it. I looked over and sure enough Jacob was sitting there looking at me. “Now maybe we can have that talk.” I pulled the cover back up over my face and moaned my disapproval. I let out another hissing breath, threw the covers off and slid down to the end of the bed, running my fingers through my hair that I now wished I had braided.
    “How long have you been awake anyway?”
    “Long enough to see the life come back into your body.”
    “So, do I do it like everyone else…wait don’t answer that. I know you’ll just say it’s another stupid question.”
    “It’s not that your questions are stupid, it’s that you do not think before you ask them,” he said as he came over and sat down next to me. “I know you have a hard time listening to someone who looks much younger than yourself, but I have lifetimes on the walk that you have not yet taken, and I would not give you wrong advice.”
    “That’s true, but you have been living in a world that had no love and very little compassion. I personally think that evens things up in certain areas,” I replied shaking my head. “My parents would have died…they did die for their children. I’m sure they fought like hell trying to save my brothers and sister before they had their throats torn out, where you have killed because you were told too. What I’m trying to say is that I was brought up to be the type of person who stood for justice, and never let the weaker and those in need do without.”
    “You may have once had a life given on the bed of rose peddles, and the comforts of those who turned your bed covers and cleaned your face, but you my friend have stepped across into a different spectrum altogether. You must become as much like stone as you say that I must become like warm water.”
    “I guess I did have a life that would look like that. I…I am so sorry that I didn’t stop and think before I opened my big mouth this time,” I said lowering my head, starting to get up.
    “Like the creature you saved. Like all who share this vessel. None had control of their life before this hour, or none would be here…”
    “And some are not,” I interrupted.
    “Why must you always look back? Can you not see the future of your own action? You worry about your boys. When will you worry about yourself?”
    “I don’t see what’s so wrong with me. I think I’m handling everything pretty damn good considering, if you know what I mean.”
    “There is that also. Why must you use those words with me when we have a disagreement?”
    “What words? Damn?”
    “Yes, among others that I care not to repeat.”
    “That would be that temper of mine that came from all the males in my life, before and after,” I replied smiling back at him.
    “I think it will be many a year before I will understand your ways, but I will try to be more understanding and flexible.”
    “I’ll try to watch my mouth, when speaking in anger to you, and I’ll start listening to the mind behind the young face.”
    “Wise choice, you will make a good leader,” he said slapping his knees and standing up. “That is with a few more years of training.”
    A loud bang came from my side of the bed and Shyanna hopped out with the pillow still over her head, and the blanket hooked on one of her wing tips. She stepped on the edge of the blanket and tripped right into the wall and screamed that horribly high pitched cry of fear. “Shyanna!” I called out her name hoping she could hear me over her own sounds, but when I touched her arm I knew she hadn’t. She went wild. Her wings flung out from her body, one crashing into the wall and