Zelda wanted to sit down, but felt guilty doing so when the other woman was walking her dog and her toddler around the room — she settled for leaning against her door frame.

''She does look a little slower than she used to," Zelda said. Yorick stopped abruptly whenever the creature-healer took a turn. Orion also stopped abruptly when she took a turn, but Zelda would have been shocked if he had suddenly gone and mastered turning on her.