The labored breathing of one of your companions caught your attention as you stumbled awake from your own exhaustive sleep.

Initially, it didn’t affect you much— sure, curiosity got the better of you and brought your eyes to look in the direction of the sound, though all you saw was Gale shifting almost restlessly.

It felt wrong to ignore whatever you were seeing. His body seemed to curl in on itself, the wizard doing his best to hide his grunts of ache and the glistening sweat on his face.