There's these things called beds... They're really great. [Open]

[hack_rat]

 It had been rather rough on Alex, growing accustomed to how the ship worked. The worst parts were the nights. They lasted forever, and it was silent, dark, and empty. The room's lights were too harsh to sleep with them on, and he didn't yet have a power source for his laptop to use that at least as a familiar sound and a familiar glow

Comments

[isee_snorkacks]

Luna is on one of her walks, humming softly to herself as she pads--still barefoot--through the hallways. She isn't particularly trying to run across conversation or excitement--in fact, she's mulling over Apparition, wondering if it would be wise for her to attempt to teach herself how exactly to go about such things, as it would be an ever-so-useful skill in dire situations

[isee_snorkacks]

She smiles vaguely, peering up at him with a quiet expression on her face, the tiniest hint of a furrow between her pale eyebrows.

"It's not a problem, really," she says, blinking after a long bout of staring at him. "Seeing you this tired is concerning."

Her eyes slide away, focusing on the other end of the hallway.

"I can't say I know where your room is, though..." A pause. "Oh! Right--" She pulls her wand from behind her ear, flicking it as she says "Accio Anna Karenina!"

[hack_rat]

Alex wasn't entirely sure what Luna was doing, but he was to tired to particularly care, though he was thoroughly flattered that Luna was concerned that he was tired. "Sorry ta c-concern you. My room's by the m-media library." Alex began walking in the direction of the library, sort of wishing that he could just teleport over there.

[isee_snorkacks]

Luna would be happy to take him straight to his room via Side-Along Apparition, but she's rather uncomfortable with the possibility of splinching, so she shan't.

"You don't have to apologize for everything, you know. I really don't mind."

Walking at his side, she keeps her eyes on the ceiling, tracing pulsing veins, her ears open for any exhausted stumbling on Alex' part. She barely bats an eyelash when a datapad comes whooshing around the corner, catching it and tucking it under her arm casually, not missing a step.

[hack_rat]

"S-sorry," he says sleepily, before raising his hand to his face, realizing that he had just done what she told him he didn't need to do, and promptly said, "s-sorry," again. Keeping himself from this simple habit seemed to be rather beyond him in this state.

He did stumble upon occasion, but catches himself quickly and continues, at least until he saw the flying datapad.

That made him pause, doing a double-take. "W-wait... wat?" Can you act any more like a muggle, Alex?

[isee_snorkacks]

She laughs softly, shaking her head. He really is such a peculiar boy--in her opinion, anyway.

Pausing in her step, she glances up at him, eyebrows raised.

"What's wrong?"

[hack_rat]

He pointed at the datapad, "w-was that just flying?"

He was fairly certain she didn't have it before, and he either just saw it flying, or was hallucinating. Either seemed perfectly possible, considering the ship he was on and his lack of sleep.

[isee_snorkacks]

She glances at the datapad, lips parted as she goes over what he said. It takes her a moment, but she realizes with a blink and a soft "ah" that he's not particularly used to people summoning random objects.

"In a manner of speaking, yes. I summoned it," she says, holding it up in one hand, lifting her wand in the other. "It's perfectly normal."

[hack_rat]

Alex laughed a bit nervously. Of course. She was from that book Loretta liked to talk about with all the magic. "That's pretty c-cool, actually." He began walking again, "I-it'll take me a wh-while ta get usedta that sorta thing though. G-got nothin' like that in our world."

Alex, with his infinite wisdom, did not realize that when he used his tendrils without making them visible that it looked much the same.

[isee_snorkacks]

"I forget that everyone isn't used to magic," she says, tucking the datapad against her chest, arms wrapped loosely around it. "I've had it my whole life, so it never occurs to me to explain things or warn people. I can't really imagine what it must be like to live without it."

[hack_rat]

Alex shrugs, closing his eyes again, "It's like th-that with things you've known you're whole life."

They finally were coming upon his room. Alex unlocked the door and walked in, turning on the lights. He sat down on the bed and eyed the pillow with disdain, "I hate nightmares..."

They had been plauging him for years, but after a particularly bad one, he had been too afraid to sleep until he became so tired that, well, that this had happened.

[isee_snorkacks]

She follows him in, looking around vaguely, eyes fixing on Alex after a moment.

"I think you'd be a little odd if you didn't hate nightmares," she says, sitting on the floor beside the head of his bed, as the unoccupied bed in the room is, in fact, occupied by Alice's cage and Alex's laptop. "Is there anything I can do to help?"

[hack_rat]

Alex laid down on the bed, not even bothering to remove his sneakers, even as he vaguely realizes that one of them has untied itself. He closed his eyes as he said, "N-no... I, well, it'll jus' be nice knowing someone's around I guess... Y-you don't haveta stay after I've fallen asleep, well, you don't haveta stay at all, but I'd like you to, if you r-really don' mind..."

He curled up with his knees almost all the way to his chest, and went to try to sleep, though it was going to be difficult, now that he was trying and not randomly passing out.

[isee_snorkacks]

She simply smiles and nods, choosing not to say anything as she watches him curl up, her datapad in her lap.

Her eyes trace his features for a few moments, some odd little voice pointing out the smooth curve of a cheekbone or the line of his eyebrow before she blinks and turns her attention to the device in her lap, tapping it a few times to light the screen.

[hack_rat]

Alex quickly realizes that sleep isn't coming- not like that at least. He gets up and then curls up on the floor next to Luna, using his hands as a pillow, even as his head and upper shoulders were pressed against the side of her lap.

[isee_snorkacks]

She raises her eyebrows at him, eyes on what she can see of his face.

"That can't be comfortable," she says, touching his shoulder gently. "You can use my lap, if you'd like." Nevermind how awkward a suggestion this might be--she really doesn't notice things like that. Ever.