Hastily she explained, “I — it would be bad if you caught a chill.” Turning her eyes away from him, she approached Buttons, holding out a hand until the horse settled down and then finding the blankets.
“See? You’re not as icy as I thought you were.” Isaac smiled softly and then watched her with Buttons, before ensuring that the fire would keep going whilst they attempted to get some sleep. “Are you alright to set that up while I go and get him some water?”
“Yes, of course.” Hopefully a stream would be close by; she didn’t really relish the thought of being alone in the forest for very long. While he was gone, she shook out the blankets and unsaddled Buttons, rubbing the horse down with some handfuls of grass and putting a blanket over him. “Good boy,” she cooed to him, and he whuffled at her. She found a shallow curve of earth by the fire and cleared away the little sticks and nutshells and stones that she could find, then spread the blankets out.