by Nayt on Sat May 29, 2010 12:33 am
Akizets didn't get to sleep too early that night, exactly as she expected. She'd stayed up with her thoughts, as flighty as they were. She attempted, if only briefly, to toss and turn in bed, but it hurt her arm and leg to move them too much. She wound up laying on her right side after a momentary tossing in bed, during which she mostly forgot what she was wearing.
The girl's thoughts were more like fantasies and fancies; her head was somewhere in the clouds during all of these, and she was mostly detached from them. They were like dreams, things she barely had an ounce of control over, regardless of how awake she really was.
It took hours for the girl to fall asleep. She did not call on Eld for help, though was tempted to more than once. The problem she encountered was availability; Eld was in his room, far from her. Not only did she not know where that was, she also couldn't walk there even if she did.
When Eld found her the next morning, Akizets was still asleep. The way she'd been sleeping, she'd curled up on her right side, opposite the side of her injured arm and leg, and had her right hand up close to her face, almost as if she'd been tempted to suck or nibble on her thumb at night. Her hair was a bit of a mess; platinum blond tufts seemed to flow this way and that. The girl was sound asleep, long after Eld had woken up, even. Unfortunately, hospital gowns rarely lent themselves to modesty, and her gown was a couple sizes too large on her, anyways. Though she was under covers from her hips down, her back was almost completely exposed, and part of her gown had slipped down her arms a bit, exposing her shoulders, collarbone, and down a bit to the middle of her chest--not quite the most embarrassing circumstances, but still something she'd have been ashamed of if conscious.