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[island_anne]

Anne still hadn't fluffed up her bed to quite the way she liked it, but she could go out in the morning and gather some more leaves and grasses to stuff under her blankets; she didn't need to fix it right that moment. Perhaps she could even figure out how to build a real bedframe, though that was certainly not a priority. Still, the not-quite-

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[sickof_swimming]

"...It's just me," came Ariel's hushed voice. "Can I come in?"

[island_anne]

Anne sat up immediately, letting the blanket fall to her waist. "Ariel!" she said, a little louder though still hardly above a whisper. "Of course you can come in. Oh my goodness, are you all right? I thought you would already be sleeping!"

[sickof_swimming]

Ariel crawled inside, dressed in her nightgown. There was only the moonlight to see by and she tried to make out Anne's face. "I'm sorry," she whispered, "I guess I'm not used to sleeping alone outside yet..."

[island_anne]

"Oh Ariel, you don't need to be sorry at all," said Anne, lifting the blanket so that Ariel might join her for a little while. "Do you like your hut, though? It looks very nearly like mine."