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pro_patria_mortuus) wrote2015-10-27 02:53 am
pro_patria_mortuus) wrote2015-10-27 02:53 am
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He wakes.
He's in his room at Milliways. Not Auvergne; not France. In Milliways, in the darkness of the middle of the night, with a counterfeit moon pale in the sky outside and Combeferre a motionless sleeping lump on the other side of the bed.
Everything is too dark, too still, too empty, too Milliways. He swallows, but whatever's in his throat stays where it is.
The seconds tick past. There's no clock, of course. What would be the point of one, here?
At last he gets out of bed, moving as quietly as he can for Combeferre's sake. Everything seems at once loud and muffled, in the midnight stillness. He lights a candle, slitting his eyes against the match's flare, and sets it down on a table where some confusing but safely nonflammable gadget will block the worst of the brightness from Combeferre. It won't wake Combeferre, he hopes; it might, but they both sleep through the other's reading often enough, and he wants the light, right now. He settles on the couch.
There's nothing he wants to do, exactly. Nothing in his power, at least. But he won't be able to sleep again any time soon.
He's in his room at Milliways. Not Auvergne; not France. In Milliways, in the darkness of the middle of the night, with a counterfeit moon pale in the sky outside and Combeferre a motionless sleeping lump on the other side of the bed.
Everything is too dark, too still, too empty, too Milliways. He swallows, but whatever's in his throat stays where it is.
The seconds tick past. There's no clock, of course. What would be the point of one, here?
At last he gets out of bed, moving as quietly as he can for Combeferre's sake. Everything seems at once loud and muffled, in the midnight stillness. He lights a candle, slitting his eyes against the match's flare, and sets it down on a table where some confusing but safely nonflammable gadget will block the worst of the brightness from Combeferre. It won't wake Combeferre, he hopes; it might, but they both sleep through the other's reading often enough, and he wants the light, right now. He settles on the couch.
There's nothing he wants to do, exactly. Nothing in his power, at least. But he won't be able to sleep again any time soon.