Redsand Canyon When I first saw you, the end was soon

His promise did work to start to put her more at ease, though it would take it’s time for her to fully settle. She didn’t know how to simply turn her mind off, but she could begin to turn it down. “Promise you’ll wake me as soon as I am called upon?” She asked again more seriously, not wishing for him to investigate first in order to buy her extra time asleep or anything of that nature. She would not put it past her husband.
 
He held her tight and she nestled against him, embracing the warmth he provided and the easing feeling of being free from burden if only for a moment. “I don’t know how to shut my mind off from this.” She stated again with more of a frown on her features. Her heart started to slow, and with it came hints of the relief she had sought from his presence. The exhaustion started to ebb at her brain with it.