Stress rushed Mumbo into the room she had prepared as he was still holding Grian. At some point during the short journey, Grian had fallen asleep, curling himself up against Mumbo, who couldn't help but feel protective of him, though Grian was technically three years older. 'But the was the newest hermit' Mumbo thought, justifying his actions. Stress had Mumbo carefully place Grian down on the bed she had set up. Once she was sure that Grian wasn't going to roll off the bed, she ran around the back of the room, collecting things from various chests and barrels, muttering to herself. Mumbo watched Grian carefully, making sure his wings wouldn't suddenly pop out while he was asleep. He really didn't feel like making up excuses for Stress.

"Okay, I have everything I need, but we are going to need to wake him up in order to treat him properly" Stress said, walking over to Mumbo, Grian, and Iskall.

"But he's barely gotten any sleep! Yes, he slept for over a day, but there were too many phantoms for him to have been pulling a second or third all-nighter in a row!" Iskall protested, wanting his brother to get some much-needed rest.

"Iskall, I am the doctor here, not you. I know what I am doing." Stress responded, glaring at Iskall

All the while, Mumbo had been working on waking Grian up, knowing how irritated Grian got when someone woke him up. "Mumbo... Let me sleep" Grian groaned, rolling away from Mumbo.

"Grian! You're awake!" Stress said happily turning back to her patient.

"I don't want to be awake... I-" Grian yawned, "I just want to sleep." Grian pulled his limbs together, curling up in a ball, an action that was almost cat-like

"Grian, hun, I have some potions that will help you get better" Stress persuaded gently

"Fine..." Grian groaned, drawing out the word, sitting up slowly.

"Okay Grian, first I am going to have you drink this milk to remove any potential potion effects that could be a part of this." Stress said, going into doctor mode. Mumbo and Iskall shared a look. Would the milk affect the concealment of Grian's cape? They didn't have to worry, for nothing happened when Grian drank the milk, at least in terms of his wings. Mumbo noticed that Grian was a lot less pale now. "Okay Grian, I'm going to have you drink this health potion, then I need you to answer a few questions on how you have been taking care of yourself in the past few days." Stress continued after seeing Grian finish the potion. "Okay, first question. When was the last time you slept before you passed out in the shopping district?"

"Ummm... Maybe five, possibly six days before?" Grian racked his memories, "It may have actually been eight days..."

"Well, that explains the phantoms" Iskall whispered to Mumbo, trying to make a joke out of the situation, though he was extremely concerned. Why did Grian stay awake for so long?

Okay..." Stress said, writing something down in a book. "Next question: what have you had to eat in the past week?"

"Golden carrots?" Grian responded, yawning a little.

"Anything else?" Stress pushed

"Umm, nothing?"

"Grian, you really need to take care of yourself! You can't live off of golden carrots alone! Yes, they are a good saturation source, but you need to eat other things! No wonder you aren't feeling well! You are tired and don't have enough nutrients in you! However, it's getting late, we will come back to this tomorrow. Grian, you better get some sleep. You two are welcome to stay, though I only have one extra bed." With that, Stress left the room, closing the door behind her.

Mumbo and Iskall looked at each other, assuming that Grian fell asleep as he was so tired. "You can have the spare bed Iskall, I'll sleep on the floor" Mumbo sighed

"Are you sure, dude?" Iskall asked. "I can go back to my base and sleep."

"Positive" Mumbo answered, "I know you want to stay near Grian, he's your brother as much as he is mine."

"Okay..." Iskall said doubtfully, walking over to the bed across the room.

"Mumbo?" Grian asked tiredly

"I thought you were asleep." Mumbo scolded, then immediately softened his voice. "What do you need?"

"W-well, I sleep better when I have someone near me. I usually have one, sometimes both of my cats sleeping on my bed." Grian started, "But since I don't have them here, I was wondering..."

"Mumbo nodded understanding what Grian meant. And so the night passed. When Iskall woke up in the morning, he found Grian curled up against Mumbo, with Mumbo hugging Grian protectively. Iskall didn't have the heart to disturb them, though he did grab a few pictures to show Stress if they woke up before she arrived. However, by the time Stress did come, almost an hour later, Mumbo and Grian were still asleep. Grabbing a picture herself, she woke up the duo, Mumbo almost falling off the bed in surprise.

Mumbo blinked the sleepiness away and noticed Iskall filming behind Stress. "Iskall you little rat!" Mumbo go up and chased Iskall out the door, immediately coming back out of concern for his friend.

"Hey Grian, you need to wake up and eat something, hun. I brought you some apples, fish, and bread. You don't have to eat it all, but I want you to eat a little of each." Stress said, placing the tray of food on the table next to Grian.

Slowly, very slowly, Grian sat up, rubbing the sleep from his eyes. He grabbed a slice of bread from the plate and started nibbling on in. Stress left, but not before saying, "Mumbo, Iskall, could you record whatever Grian doesn't eat when he is finished? There is a book beside the plate you can write in. Then you can have the rest if you want." Nodding in understanding, Mumbo turned back to Grian and sat next to him on the bed, Iskall sitting on the other side. The trio ignored their buzzing, vibrating phones and just sat in silence. Until the rest of the hermits came. Okay, it was only Doc, but the rest were sure to come soon. 

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Total Word Count: 3033

So, I usually try to keep my A/Ns short, so that you guys can continue reading, but I really want you guys to read this. So, I have been working on a cover for this book, and I want Grian to be in his watcher uniform, only he has his helmet off. The only thing is, I don't know how to draw Grian's face so that it looks like his Minecraft skin, (somewhat) and also looks realistic. So could you guys maybe help? I have a sketch of the general thing right here:

As you can see, I've circled my draft of Grian's face, but it doesn't look right. And yes, I modeled the watcher helmet after X's cuz, well, you'll see why. The stance the person is in is definitely not going to be the actual thing, I just needed a figure to draw the wings off of and it just turned into me designing the uniform.

Also, I'm considering putting the tiniest bit of Gridoc in this story, but it won't be that romantic as I am really bad at that. If you don't like it, you will probably just be able to think of it as them being really close platonically. 

Thanks for Reading!

~Niza