One day passed by and the men were still in an unconscious state, just as they were in part of the following day.
Since the late afternoon, when the five women found the men, the novice first to be at their care, stayed and watched over them — especially Boyce.
She counted away the hours while they just lay there, pale and unaware of existence.
It wasn't until the middle of the afternoon of this second day that Boyce stirred and the young novice was there. She wet a clean cloth and wiped the sweat from his head and face, and watched him slowly open his eyes. As she went to wipe his face once more, he took her hand into his own and felt its delicate softness.
"Can you hear me?" she asked him in a whisper.
"Yes!" said Boyce and he tried to get up but the couldn't.
"You will be alright soon, but now just relax."
He looked around the room, which he was in, and on a window ledge he saw the crow that he had been seeing since they left Besten.
He couldn't take his eyes off the novice and he touched her face once more.
"I am real!" she told him. "My name is Lilith."