As soon as Olive looked up and noticed them standing there she quietly stood and gestured for Miles to take her place beside Bernard. Miles shook his head but Cora pushed him forward. He glared back at her but took Olive's seat after all. He looked awkwardly about for something to do before deciding to rest a hand on his friend's shoulder.
"Thank you for coming," Olive whispered, crushing each of them in a hug, "It's been so awful. He only finally fell asleep an hour or so ago. The doctor had to give him quite a bit of medicine for his pain. Before that, he was just crying and miserable and... and he just begged for us to help him but...but we couldn't." A sob escaped her before she covered her mouth and hurried from the room, her friends following.
In the hallway out of the hearing range of the others, Olive cried in her friend's arms until she had no more tears left. At last, she straightened, her face red and her eyes swollen.
