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[ This isn't a mistake Aria would usually make. She knows where her bed is, she knows that she sleeps right above Esdese, except that 'sleep' these days has been synonymous with 'stare up at the ceiling, stare at empty space, stare at the darkness behind her eyelids, and end up thinking most of the night away'.

Which isn't all that conducive to healthy slumber. Lucky for her, she's very, very good at projecting energy and enthusiasm and keeping it genuine, so she doesn't think anyone's caught on. Or if they have, hopefully it's someone like Mitsunari, who definitely wouldn't care enough to speak up about it.

That aside, the exploring and the unsettling feeling of her power being suppressed and the general lack of decent sleep has inevitably made her falter in responsible decision-making. There's a top bunk, it's empty, and so she's going for it, finally exhausted enough that she can curl up and pass out, even without her partner there.

Maybe she still looks faintly distressed in her sleep, but at least she's sleeping.

In... the wrong bed entirely... ]

[Meanwhile, Sakon very rarely has trouble sleeping. It's never that he's particularly burnt out by the end of his day, but there's no way that he can keep up all that energy of his without enough sleep. Thus making sleep a very, very easy conquest for him. At the end of this particular day he's ready to just remove his armor and settle in for a good night's sleep.

So he's just about to jump up into his top bunk when he notices that there's... someone already there.

For the first time, Shima Sakon uses the ladder to get up to his top bunk.

Not for the first time, there's a girl in his bed - but for the first time, it's a girl who can also turn into a demon sword.

Ah...

That said, he does notice that Aria looks particularly uncomfortable in her sleep. He can't help but think that maybe it's a struggle for her to get that much rest at night... so if he woke her up, would she even be able to go back to dreamland? And if he didn't wake her up, would he really be okay with trying to get her back to her own top bunk?

That sounds like work...

So with a sigh, he gently picks her up just enough to scoot her further to the side, away from the middle of the bed before he's crawling underneath the sheets next to her.]

[ Aria only stirs slightly once she's moved, and maybe she'd wonder why there's sudden warmth on one side, but there's something comforting about a solid presence that makes her instinctively turn towards it (him). Her eyes stay closed, but some of the tension leaves her face, and she'll relax fully.

It's like being back in a place she'd started to think of as home. ]

[... alright, he can admit that that's endearing.

So Sakon is kind of just shaking his head in response to that, throwing an arm over her even as he moves to rest properly onto the pillow.]

Sweet dreams, Aria-chan.

[ Arms do more for her than blankets, honestly. Granted, she'll probably stay asleep until he starts sprawling everywhere, but for now, she's contentedly curled underneath his arm.

Carry on. ]

[The sprawling everywhere begins once Sakon is actually rather thoroughly asleep, which he manages to slip into pretty quickly.

Then he starts getting restless and moving his arm off of her, instead stretching out his restless legs and turning this way and that. Eventually throwing another arm across Aria - but at lot less purposefully and a bit higher so sorry if it actually manages to hit her-]

[ It wouldn't be the first time she's been hit, and Aria's only ever been a deep sleeper after fatiguing or consecutive battles-- neither of which is really applicable here, so with an arm suddenly whacking her on the head, she's jerking awake. ]

Wh--

[ Two things are very quickly confirmed.

1.) She's not alone.
2.) Sakon is there???

It's probably laughable that Aria then spends the next three or four minutes staring (half-bleary, half-startled) at this very undignified sprawled mess of a person, not really wondering why he's in her(?) bed, but how he can sleep like that. Does he get sore in the morning? ]

[ Deep pondering aside, she's still too tired to really dwell on the specifics, and she doesn't really care whether he's in her(?) bed or not. She's at least awake enough to realize that the warmth and (kind of loud) breathing had been his, and because of it, she'd felt... relieved? Nostalgic? Whatever the case, Aria is a little too selfish to abandon ship just because she's sharing bedspace with a roommate, so she'll grasp his arm and nudge it to the side to hold it away from her head and swing one leg over his side to keep him in one spot.

She still wants to sleep, but it's probably better if he doesn't roll over and send her flying first. ]

[So even though Sakon has a tendency to slip into sleep and from there his body kind of just does what he wants, he's at least got enough of a survival instinct to be able to wake up when something or someone else manages to initiate contact with his sleeping form.

Which leads to him blinking awake automatically when she swings her leg over, halfway to sitting up and tense like he's ready to spring out of bed.

Then he remembers that ah yes, Aria is in his bed and even though Haven is prone to moments of ridiculousness, there wasn't a giant monster attacking the city last time he checked. So he releases a breath that he was holding before falling back onto the bed and sighing.]

Demanding, aren't you?

[In his bed and now you're kind of just pinning him as you please-]

[ Good reflexes, she notes wearily, which she'd already known, but tiredness dictates that it's something to acknowledge. She hadn't meant to wake him up, but now that he's blinking and sassy underneath her, might as well return the favor. She'll lift herself up a little, though. ]

You're hard to sleep through.

[The sass is real, hence why he's going to yawn and so nonchalantly-]

I know I'm hot but try to keep from getting too frisky, Aria-chan. We have roommates.

[sakon can you not]

How considerate of you to remember that-- [ and even if she keeps herself semi-upright, she'll lower her head as she keeps her voice soft. ] When you're the one who touched me first, Sakon.

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I never said you weren't hot too.

[shame what's that

But honestly being semi-upright doesn't seem all that conducive to sleeping so he's going to moving the arm that she got a grasp on to circle around her waist, pulling her back down]

Either way I'm too tuckered out, Aria-chan. Another night maybe.

[He's teasing most likely-]

[ There's a very stifled "oof" as she goes from semi-upright to hi Sakon's chest, but that's one question answered, one she wouldn't have asked him.

This is fine, then. ]

I'm not taking responsibility if someone wakes up next time.

[ she's teasing most likely. But the exhaustion is real enough, so she muffles a yawn against his chest, before she's considerate enough to ask: ]

Can you sleep like this?

Sleep like what? With a hot girl in my bed? Yeah, definitely, even though I'm pretty sure we skipped a step.

[Teasing, teasing-

That said he's yawning himself because those are contagious and then letting his own head fall back against the pillow.]

S'fine though. You can explain why you were in my bed later. Y'know, when the sun's up and all.

[ He said something about... what?

... Ah, well, she'll care about it later. ]

To be continued, then. [ and it really won't take long before she's lost consciousness again, slumped against him. Someone's sleepy. ]

[So sleepy.

And honestly he's pretty quick to pass out too. There may be moments where he gets tempted to shift around overnight, but with her pinning him down, he doesn't ever get very far.

Once morning breaks, instead of being all sprawled out and the sheets kicked off like they normally are, he's got maybe just one leg hanging off the edge of the bed. Definitely a change.]

[ At least she didn't get smacked during the night, which she'd be grateful for, if she was awake and not curled on top of him.

She'll stir soon enough, but for this exact moment, she's content. ]

[Meanwhile Sakon is still pretty thoroughly passed out.

It's not that he's not a morning person but more like he won't rise until something spurs him to. So for now he's still underneath Aria, arm loosely curled around her still as he remains knocked out.

Picture perfect soldier, this one.]

[ Here we have pictured a fierce soldier and a demon sword, deadly forces...

... conked out.

But Aria does eventually rouse herself, freeing Sakon when she shifts off of him and to the side. She's still very much groggy, but she remembers enough to be completely at ease where she is.

Which is why she'll ever-so-nicely tickle under his chin. ]

You're missing out on the day, you know.

[It's something of a repeat from the night before where his reflexes react automatically, his free hand immediately snatching her wrist with a probably not too gentle grip and his eyes open immediately-

And then he's blinking, realizing that it was Aria's voice he heard, and then his grip on her hand is relaxing as he exhales. He doesn't let go completely, instead yawning before raising a brow at her.]

The day is missing out on me, you mean?

[ She can't say she didn't see that coming, so Aria stills herself until Sakon confirms that yes, it's her.

And then she snorts, delicately. ]

Yes, actually! It asked me to do something about it, but I think next time, the sun can do the trick itself. I'd hate to get between you.

The sun and I don't always get along though...

[He's groggy and sometimes the Toyotomi men used to compare Ieyasu to the sun. It's a little foggy as to what's going on in his brain right now-

But then he's still picking up on something else.]

So did the sun ask you to take care of that this morning or last sunset? Because you've been in my bed for a lot longer than necessary for the job, I think.

What do you mean, your...

[ but now that there's substantially more light and Aria isn't blinded by exhaustion, once she takes a look around... ]

action; we'll say the night of 5/4 or something

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