... hers for only a few more days now. Tearful argument went on long into the night but reached no different resolution. He was unmoved by her pleading, she by his reasoning. As they lay apart and unsleeping in their bed, Chase was seeing the ever bleeding mouth of his diabolical patient, she the face of the man who had dominated their lives for the last five years and who stared at her unblinking, ...
...Manor against the starry expanse; from this distance it seemed no more than a dilapidated dollhouse. Were the night cloudier, she would have been able to make out the reflections from the lights of Bebidos, the unsleeping city. Clear as it was, she could only point in a general direction if she wanted to locate the Dyne city. Tonight, though, she had no interest in geography. She gazed out at the ...
.... In the midst of this dark tide, old shadows from ancient times stir, awoken like bones that should not be disturbed, to turn their ageless eyes to Shadowfane. "As that dark time approaches, unsleepingspirits call to the living, tearing open a gate at the edge of Shadowfane that leads to the heart of the Whisperhaunt, to a haunted place once forgotten and perhaps better left unremembered. The ...
.... Ambra the Phoenix blazingpredator - She uses fire. And she's going to hunt you down and fuck you up. Tristan Menzner sleeping_brb - Tristan... sleeps a lot. Levi the Unsleepingfourpuppets - He uses... four puppets. Kozue Aragaki cookandgame - She's a cook, and a gamer. Amaryllis gracelessflower - She's named after a flower (in flower language, it ...
...when he finally put out the light, long after Pete was asleep and Sirius, who had bounced in late after a date, was snoring softly, he knew that James was still lying silent and unsleeping behind his closed curtains. * * * James Potter didn’t have secrets from his friends. He bounced back from setbacks at the speed of light and never had an introspective thought in his life. James Potter was...
... to anger. I realize that my hands are balled into fists even as I’m getting a little hard. I pull the sheet up to my chin and exhale heavily, hoping that Adam hears me. I lie, simmering in unsleeping agony, taut as a rubber band, long after Adam has said goodnight to Drake and fallen asleep. ***** The next morning, I find that the anger that I felt hours ago has matured into flat-out rage. I am...
... to the minds of the infected and would have gladly killed them all, just to eat their flesh. In her last moments of coherency she’d asked Simon to make sure, she didn’t become one of the unsleeping. Simon had put her into a forever sleep, when the last Alliance hospital fell to the infected and there was no longer any chance of saving what she once was. After that only landed when they had to. ...
Title: Sleepless and UnsleepingAuthor: Sister Coyote Series: Any. Doesn't matter. Word Count: 250 Rating: G Characters: Al, Ed Summary: He does not need ... manage. He does not need rest. But still. It is hard, hard, to sit alone at night, sleepless and unsleeping, without any of the bliss of oblivion, without any of the blessed incoherence of dreams. All his word is wakefulness and...
The munchkin has molars coming in. For anyone who has ever experienced the ... joy... of molar teething will find that enough explanation. For everyone else, let's just say that he's gone from being generally cheerful during the day and waking up once a night, to be being unpredictably inconsolable and waking up on average 4 times a night. I am mommy zombie, hear me moan pitifully.
...in the space of seconds, that he grasps at even the most ephemeral memories of her like a drowned man clinging to blessed shore so as not to lose a shred of what she left behind, that he lies unsleeping at her side each night agonizing over what went wrong, what he did wrong, how he could have saved her. She thought that he didn’t understand, and the cynical skeptic within her that she so often...
