Dull mint eyes opened in the darkness of yet another too early morning without a decent rest. Elua studied the ceiling of the guest room in growing frustration. She acknowledged that she had at least managed a few hours of actual sleep more than yesterday.
The Whispering Skydancer's soft trills eventually drew her attention to where it perched on the windowsill. The bird cocked its head at its caretaker and its white eye gleamed at her in the pre-dawn moonlight. She spoke to it in her monotone, while really speaking to herself.
"I know. Being stubborn about this isn't solving it."
She had tried her own bed first, but gave up when her mind wouldn't quiet itself. The thought of Qat's past presence in the bed made the static-filled emptiness of her night a little easier to bear before she'd finally drifted off.
4 of 5 - almost there! Push! Push those late quintuplet chapter babies!
Her thing about sleep continues. What mysteries and plots lay dormant in that mire of cultivator insomnia?!
I finally made them use the tea set and cards. Well, they didn't really do much other than look at the cards in the narration. Is it because I didn't actually design anything like a card game?
O-of course not. I just clearly got too into the intimacy and forgot to... make rules for the game they might play. I mean, I showed that you apparently divide the deck in two and fan them out! That's something!
A-anyway. I also brought up the amber finally. And I did the tools and tree last time once again. Am I just doing a circuit of the wedding gift items for plot moving along ideas? Am I only *just* now realizing that as I type this sentence?
Yes. I, in fact, did not realize I was doing it so much!