Alice had just woken up close to an hour before Ryan came in and she smiled over. Instinctively, she lay her hand over his when he sat down beside her and adjusted her head so she could see him better. Gripping his hand between her fingers and thumb, she held onto him and lay quietly in her bed, nodding positively to his question. She was feeling better, compared to the amount of pain she had been in nearly two days beforehand.