Under normal circumstances it's pretty hard to lie to her; these aren't, she buys it, she's very pleased. She sits with him for twenty minutes or so and then goes back to work.

And it is nice. Delight may be too lost to feel but he doesn't stop looking at it and when it's over he reminds himself it'll happen again.

And then there are stars, too. She set the spell to show a scene overlooking the forest from a hilltop, for the clearest view, and it's trees for miles and miles below and starry, intermittently cloudy skies above.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

She comes back after a few hours, yawning and dragging her feet, but happy. See you in the morning.

He tries to read her to get more sense of what she's happy about.

She's happy that he's happy. She's glad that it was so easy to arrange; it's important after trauma, she knows from personal experience, and usually much, much harder; she was expecting it to be too hard for her to pull off.

Oh, good, that's easy, he can continue doing it.

She falls asleep quickly and is awake well before sunrise.

Sunrise is nice. He expresses joy, trying not to repeat too many phrases from last night.

She takes a break from working on his blanket to sit and watch it with him, beaming. (The east-facing view is from a different hill, and overlooks the lake she gets their water from.) When it starts getting bright, she mentions that she can deactivate the spell if he'd like her to.

Might be easier, thank you.

All right. And she does, by touching the stone at a particular spot and humming a tone.

Your blanket'll be done soon; I'd have to teleport you to get it under you but I bet you'd be more comfortable that way.

I wasn't planning to maintain a very high body temperature for the winter. Won't be conscious but that's all right.

She blinks. You hibernate? I guess that makes sense with what you've been saying. But I meant today; I should have it done in the next couple hours.

We don't usually. Should be possible in principle.

...you know people get sores if they lay in one position too long, right? Kind of nasty ones, too. Bears and things don't seem to have that problem but if you don't usually hibernate it seems like it'd be a risk.

I can consciously control everything my body does. 

When you're asleep?

Should still be able to. I heal while sleeping.

Huh. I'd feel better about it if we found a way to check that first, I don't want to find out the hard way if it works just well enough that I can't wake you up, but okay.

Don't see an alternative, can't make myself eat and you don't have enough food anyway.

She flinches, subtly, at that. Yeah, as options for dealing with a food shortage go it's not as bad as it could be.

Is it winter in the whole world?

Everywhere I've been, at least, but that's not much. I could check, I think.