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Jan's eyes fluttered open once more and she asked, "Are you alright?" her voice was raspy with sleep and lack of fluid, but it was still loud enough for him to have heard. She stretched a bit, she could tell that he wasn't sleeping. His breathing wasn't deep enough. Even in her groggy, sore, stiff state, she could tell.

Jan let him hold onto her. She had no idea what he'd been through, but judging by his earlier illness it could not have been pleasant. With a small smile, she pet his hair and kept him close until he'd be ready to come loose from her. "I'm glad," she half-whispered.

"I think so. I don't really know myself." she uncurled herself and sat up as well, placing a concerned hand on his shoulder. "But you're feeling better now, right?" she asked, peering into his face, as though that might help her discover the truth. Her hand stayed firmly planted on his shoulder as she waited to a response. Kit had been weakened before like this, but never to the same extent. She was worried that he might get dizzy if he tried to get up. That he might run out of energy after he was up. Any number of things could go wrong.

"I'm glad," she said again. "Well let's get you in the shower first, you clammy thing. Then you can have water." That said, she released his shoulder and kissed his cheek softly. Jan's red hair hit his shoulder again as she maneuvered herself out of bed without managing to bother him much at all. She held out her hand to him and smiled.

Jan had managed to snag some fruit and a few leftovers from the fridge, heat it up to the perfect temperature, and complete a plate for Kit before eating herself on a stool next to the counter. "If you keep guzzling like that, you'll get sick," she said, taking a chomp out of the bright and delicious fruit that was in front of her.

She continued to eat as she waited for Kit to sit with her and partake in the lovely meal he'd prepared for all of them just the night before. It was a wonderful meal that made her particularly happy to eat.

January smiled at him softly and put a hand to his forehead, her fingertips lightly touching the skin that lie there with the most careful determination. Her eyes closed just as she finished swallowing a piece of fruit and she let a current of her own power flow into the amp before her. The bloody garnet color spread from her fingertips and slowly surrounded him, lending him some of her own energy. It was not much, mostly because she had hardly any to give, but it would be enough to clear his head for the time being. One eternity of a second later, she let the energy stop flowing into him. Her Garnet eyes reopened and her delicate fingers fell from the grace of his forehead.

The kind hostess was officially much paler than she had been in his presence for quite some time, but rather than give him a chance to worry about her, she turned back to her plate and continued to eat the most delicious fruits and energy-giving foods that qualified as breakfast-worthy. Her sleepy eyes desperately craved a few more hours of rest, but there was no time for it...not today. Red strands of hair were still tangled a bit from her battle, and she was aching in every place it was possible to ache, but she hid it with the most subtle grace.

January had no time for weakness, and Sundri had no time to prepare. There had been a strange man sited in the streets just the night before, which meant that an assassin was in town. The only reason to enter in such a way was to make sure that the protectors of Sundri didn't know what was coming, and seeing as most of the people living in Sundri were criminals or outlaws, she doubted that it was because this person was embarrassed.

Her troubling thoughts were only reflected in the stiffness of her otherwise relaxed posture and the way in which she paused for long moments of time before moving on to the next piece of food she would put into her mouth. The garnet guardian only wished that she knew more, nearly forgetting Kit was in the room with her at all.

Jan felt the gratitude of a strange consciousness that she had felt before, but at the moment, she was too tired to place it. Some good she would do if she felt like this all day. She took another large piece of fruit just as Kit asked her what was on her mind. The girl finished her chewing and swallowed the fruit before sighing softly and turning her weary eyes to him.

"There's a lot going on just now...I think there might be an assassin in Sundri," she said. "A stranger was seen entering the city while the rest of us were fighting...I don't like where this is going. If we don't find that person there's going to be trouble. We don't know if they're a spy from the tower or what is happening, but I want them out of my home."

She felt as though she was near tears, but it was a strange combination of emotion and dry eyes from sleep loss. "I have to go into Sundri's Protection Guild today and help in the coordination of the search. I'm so tired though...I need more rest. If I don't go, that intruder could wreak such havoc in so little time..." and here, she let her emotion overtake control of her eyes.

Sundri had been her home and haven for years. The people here adored her, and she loved every part of this place. If there was one thing in the world that meant something to Jan, it was this place. And as her tear-ridden eyes looked back up at Kit, she felt a feeling of overwhelming distraught come over her. Never had she been so irrationally emotional about anything before. This strange feeling of weakness shook her frame and her overly tired mind.

Enough stress had been put on her body to result in this and she wanted desperately to make it stop. To be in control again. Even as she thought it, she knew that until she had more rest, she could not have any sort of composure.