"Mhmm..." She releases the water and a little awkwardly situates herself under the covers, laying there for a moment and watching him, thinking back on those times before when she'd been drunk, or upset, or otherwise inconsolable by anyone else and he had been there.
"I'm glad you're here." She smiles softly, before turning onto her side and curling slightly in order to drift off.
At first she sleeps in fits and starts, ghosts of nightmares drifting through her subconscious, without enough meat to fully wake her but enough to illicit the tiniest gasps and whimpers, before she's finally able to sleep into a deep REM.
The full-fleshed nightmares, the kinds that appeared with the news of the Project's future, or the already numerous castle horrors she'd been suggested to already, the kinds that would have her waking in a cold sweat and ruin the rest of her night, were absent, frightened off by the presence to the side of the bed.
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"I'm glad you're here." She smiles softly, before turning onto her side and curling slightly in order to drift off.
At first she sleeps in fits and starts, ghosts of nightmares drifting through her subconscious, without enough meat to fully wake her but enough to illicit the tiniest gasps and whimpers, before she's finally able to sleep into a deep REM.
The full-fleshed nightmares, the kinds that appeared with the news of the Project's future, or the already numerous castle horrors she'd been suggested to already, the kinds that would have her waking in a cold sweat and ruin the rest of her night, were absent, frightened off by the presence to the side of the bed.