The days turn into weeks.

(A/N oops there was some words here that I should have taken out.)

The first week was the worst thing that Bruce and Lucas had ever experienced.

Their 20 hour long sleeps were restless, they were in a permanent state of never quite asleep but never quite awake.
The slightest movement would send sharp shooting pain throughout their body's waking them up and more often than not just as sleep began to take its hold again a slight twitch would wake them up again, and the process would continue again and again until eventually hunger and thirst would fully wake them up.

Mottaker and Makt took turns to keep an ear out for the two friends.
They would lay just round the corner from where the smaller dragons were sleeping so they would know when they woke up. Which was now always at night.
Not that the two friends knew that.
Then, under the cover of night Mottaker and Makt would get them each a bucket of water from a nearby stream and slowly pour it in their mouths, before flying out to sea to fish.

Bass and Tope were the most common fish they brought back.
They would then tear the fish up and mix the fish with water before giving the mixture to Bruce and Lucas, who would painfully swallow it as the now normal, and tasty fish and water mixture was slowly poured into their mouths.

The rest of their waking hours were spent laying mostly in silence.
They would occasionally talk about what their parents would be going through, and their fears and worries for the future now that they lay, almost helpless, down an old chalk mine. Somehow having been transformed into dragons. Something they still couldn't get their head around properly.
On the most part however talking was far too painful and they were far too exhausted to talk much anyway.

Towards the end of that first week, the two newly transformed dragons started to get more and more undisturbed sleep as their pain slowly subsided. Their new dragon bodies slowly healing, and finishing off the process that Makt had started.

On the seventh day, (not including those first few days spent unconscious) they both got a good 3 hours of undisturbed sleep.

It was on the eleventh day when the bucket of fresh stream water was put down in front of Lucas that he said he would try to drink it himself. Mottaker, who had taken Lucas his bucket, told him how he should make a bowl shape with the back of his tongue and lap it up.
With pain equivalent to a very sore stiff neck and without standing up, Lucas then moved his head close to the bucket and began lapping up the water. It didn't take long for him to learn exactly how to position his tongue to get the most water with each lap, and in less than 5 minutes the bucket was empty.

Not to be outdone, Bruce said he should probably try it now Lucas had done it
Makt moved the bucket closer to Bruce.
He soon got the knack for lapping up the water too and finished in about the same amount of time as Lucas.

When the two older dragons came back from fishing, with full stomachs and full buckets Bruce and Lucas also slowly ate the food themselves. They were told to suck the soft mixture into their mouths and then swallow. This action seemed to be hard wired into their brains as they didn't even have to concentrate on what they were doing.
Bruce always was a fast eater and finished his first.

For the next week their painful limbs slowly stopped hurting as much as they had done. Until about one week after they first fed themselves, while Mottaker and Makt were out fishing they both decided to stand up.
the fire that Mottaker set up when the two friends awoke about 2 hours earlier, had turned into glowing red hot embers. Despite this, Bruce and Lucas could still see each other fairly well, mostly thanks to their excellent night vision.

It was Bruce who suggested they should try it saying, that like their necks and heads. Once they started using their legs the pain and stiffness might subside quicker.
Lucas was reluctant at first but after Bruce had slowly stood up Lucas quickly followed, although he also stood up slowly.
They spent about 5 minutes stretching and moving their legs their front two replacing their arms.
They were very unsteady and off balance, both almost fell over several times. And soon the sudden exertion got the better of them, and they lay back down.
When the two other dragons arrived, the friends told them what they had done, and elected to try and eat their food standing up. Which they were told would be much better for their insides anyway.
It was very painful, but they both somehow managed it.
Mottaker and Makt congratulated them on this small milestone.

Due to getting better sleep they were awake for about 8 hours each night.
Because of this they found out something peculiar about their new brains,
they could stay awake and alert for hours while doing nothing, without getting board.

Neither of them could lay down and do nothing, at all not even talk for more than an hour before they were transformed.
But now they could go into an almost trance like state for hours on end, but feeling like no more than an hour had passed.

Another benefit of their healthier sleeping patterns was Mottaker and Makt no longer took turns keeping an ear out for them, instead, they left them to the privacy they needed at such a difficult time.

Now when Mottaker and Makt woke up they would first fly to the nearby stream and take a long drink before flying back to the chalk quarry and the mine that was hidden in one corner, each carrying the two smaller dragons buckets leaving them outside to their alcove as they passed. Before resting for several hours until they grew hungry enough.
Then they would go to Bruce and Lucas's alcove asking if they were ready to eat. The two full grown dragons also carrying that day's firewood.
With Bruce and Lucas not having eaten for the same period of time as the larger dragons, the answer was always a profound yes.