Will and Halt were Saya's room. Horace had gotten Alyss and Pauline, and they bandaged all her wounds while Gilan and Horce worked on Halt and Will's. Crowley had left for the castle to tell the Barron they were home. After their wounds were bandaged, Horace escorted Alyss and Pauline to the castle.
Saya laid there sound asleep. Will was next to her and Halt was in the door way. Will felt as though it was his fault she went through that, and Halt kept telling him that it was not his fault. Saya had woken up in the morning to find Will sitting next to her asleep. She would have gotten up but the tiredness and the pain that went through her body, she fell asleep again knowing she was safe.
She woke up to someone shaking her and calling her name. As she came to she saw Halt and Will's worried faces. She felt the sweat on her body and pounding of her heart.
"You had another nightmare." Halt said as he sat next to her. "You want to talk about it?"
She shook her head. They all knew what it was about. She got up and grabbed her cloak, bow, and quiver.
"I just need some air." She went outside to a place not too far away from the cabin, but far enough for them not to be able to see her, and started target practice. It was one of the few thing that helped her calm down from nightmares. Pauline described it as it was one of the things she had absolute control in. She knew where she wanted the arrow to go and she put the arrow there, and no one stopped her. It had been two weeks since they had returned home, and Saya was plagued with nightmares. She learned to live on the minimal amount of sleep, even though Will, Halt, and everyone else tried to encourage her to sleep more, it just made it worse. Saya kept on firing arrows trying to get the memories off her mind.
Halt, Will and Crowley sat on the porch as noon approached.
"Do you think she'll get over it?"
"She has a year before the next gathering, Crowley, she'll be fine."
"You think she's strong enough, Halt?"
"I suffered a lot in Skandia but not as much as she suffered in there." Will said plainly. "She didn't say a thing to those guys no matter how hard they pushed her. She made it through that, she can make it through this."
Crowley nodded. He knew this girl was tough but he didn't know how tough. He bid Will and Halt farewell and told him that they would see him at the Gathering.