She ran to the bodies and turned one over onto its back. Her eyes opened wide and she could not believe the beauty of this young, but badly injured man. She checked his body for broken bones and severe cuts. She did the same with the other body, taking the same care inspecting it until the other novice and the three nuns came to help her. She returned to the gentle handsome man, the younger of the two. She put her ear against his muscular chest and sighed with relief when she heard his heart beating. "This one is still alive!" she said as if relieved. "This one, as well!" the others confirmed about Lloyd. The pretty novice ripped her plain white dress and wet it in the river then wiped the young man's cuts and bruises. He stirred but never came to. The other novice ripped her dress, too, and rendered care to the other man. The third nun looked around, keeping a vigil in the event that those that did this to these two men might return and inflict further harm upon all of them. She held onto the rope that was tied around the cow's neck. "We have to take these men back to the Abbey, my children!" the first nun told them. The other non-avowed, with her big beautiful eyes, questioned the safety of doing such a thing but the nuns accepted taking the men back to Gothal. The crow was still hopping around Boyce's body but the young novice didn't chase it away. She helped the other four women lift the men onto the cow and they took them back to the Abbey, inside of Gothal. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT 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." "You are very beautiful, Lilith!" She smiled at him. She was happy that he liked her appearance because, since that day when she found him and his friend, by the river, she was in love with him. "My friend?" he asked her. "He is fine. Some sisters are looking after him!" she told him and he smiled, taking her hand. "This is the abbey, then?" "Yes!" she answered.