"I'm surprised you didn't have to buy the house next door and build her a tunnel between the two so she could sneak over and see them anytime she wanted too." There was a soft smile, "We both know you would have said yes."

"Pink with cow print," she teased softly, leaning against him for a moment or two before moving back to the chair opposite Albert and taking his hand. "I keep thinking that I could try and heal him, but then I'm scared that it could do more harm than good. That he might wake up wrong."