So cold...so very cold..  Mel had never liked the cold, and this was worse than anything she had felt before.  She was bumped and nudged as they carried her.  She didnt care when Em cut the last of her clothes off.  She didnt make a sound about it, she was shivering hard, her body shuddering.  The storm seemed to have passed and she was glad of that, but the sun didnt come out.<br/><br/>"Blankets, lots of blankets in chest" she told himm pointing to an old sea chest.  "Found them around" she chattered in broken words. "Hot water boil.  Fire there" she managed to point to a place that had some stones around it.  She looked around, "Em, Emily, need hot water, need fire" she repeated, knowing the girls might be a little confused or stand offish.  "So cold...."<br/><br/>"Ankle numb, so cold, cant feel.  Not good?  I....I cant...thinK" she should know these things, she was a nurse for petes sake, but she couldnt think, she was just too cold to think.