Snow wanted to say, Please don't bring the idiot, but she couldn't. She couldn't even manage to open her mouth. Everything was stuck and she had no idea how to make anything come out without setting herself back into full motion. She didn't know how to open her mouth at let out words instead of noise, how to move her body and not let her arms and legs start swinging. All or nothing. And she didn't want to hurt Socks.

She chose nothing.

Slowly, creakingly, she managed a nod.