"What are you doing here, Ruan?" Kelyn asks, once she has bundled her cousin out of the wagon. "Looking for you. I heard you'd been helping some uplander, but I didn't realise it was Grandpa's contact." He peers at her. "Have you had breakfast?" "No, why?" "You're more irritable when you're hungry." He grins at her outrage. "You should go and get some." "I can't leave. Jory hit his head -" "I'll stay with him. You need to pack, anyway, if you're going to Lethey." Impervious to her glare, he carries on. "You are, aren't you?"