Rich fretted over Donnie not answering him at first but the twitches were promising. They seemed instinctual, like he was trying to curl into the warmth and that meant his body was starting to wake up again. He figured maybe it'd take a little while for his brain to start chugging along and catch up.

Fortunately, he was right. Donnie finally spoke and Rich let out a sigh of relief.

"You can say that again. I like to keep my daily dose of decompression accidents to a minimum," he agreed. "You okay? Anything feel broken?"

There'd been risk in moving him like that but he'd had to do it or he might have frozen to death.