[ Protest is there, an argument ready to be made that he can surely get the nap later and he didn't list his wants in a strict order--but it's pointless. Already he can feel the tethers of the conscious world beginning to unfurl around him, the call for rest resonating throughout his very marrow.
A lazy smile, part relaxed and part weak, quirks under the warmth of lips again, a teasing shiver whispering along his nerves in ready subservience to encroaching sleep.
He murmurs, lashes weighing heavy-- ]
Better be. You promised.
[ And I'm gonna hold you to it, he thinks, turning slightly to bury his face in the dark shroud of hair and breathe deep. Just a nap..
.. which will twist into hours upon hours, and when he wakes, he will be sure that he's missing something as critical to his heart as the blood that moves through it, but he won't be able to find it again.
/fin
A lazy smile, part relaxed and part weak, quirks under the warmth of lips again, a teasing shiver whispering along his nerves in ready subservience to encroaching sleep.
He murmurs, lashes weighing heavy-- ]
Better be. You promised.
[ And I'm gonna hold you to it, he thinks, turning slightly to bury his face in the dark shroud of hair and breathe deep. Just a nap..
.. which will twist into hours upon hours, and when he wakes, he will be sure that he's missing something as critical to his heart as the blood that moves through it, but he won't be able to find it again.
Even if it's right beside him. ]