"Well, ain't much we can do, anyway," said Heiji. "I mean, the only treatment we got is rest."

He was just going to

ignore the part about marriage what?

Heiji gave Hershel's shoulder a reassuring pat. "So, if you've got this part covered..." Yeah, maybe the best thing right now was to get out of Hershel's hair. Unless Hershel needed help carrying Simon somewhere, but. Hershel seemed like a nice, strapping lad.....