[ It's the answer he wants to hear, though maybe not the one he should want to hear. He doesn't want her keeping herself awake with anxiety about possibly making him sick, and would his presence really be enough to -
No, he can't let himself think like that. Not now, when she's pressing so softly against him, guiding his arms around her, though they take little coaxing. He breathes in deeply, settling snugly against her as he presses a kiss to the crown of her head. ]
Okay.
[ ...She's so unnaturally warm. Gods, he's so worried about her.
But rest is what the two - really, the three of them desperately need, and her form gently curved within his quiets his thoughts enough to allow for his utter exhaustion to take over. It's mercifully easy to let sleep take him, then, though his rest is littered with dreams, reliving the day, imagining what the next one might bring. They pepper his night with bouts of wakefulness that claw at his chest - but then he feels her form against him, her steady, unfaltering presence even when she herself is ill, and he's able to sleep once more. ]
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No, he can't let himself think like that. Not now, when she's pressing so softly against him, guiding his arms around her, though they take little coaxing. He breathes in deeply, settling snugly against her as he presses a kiss to the crown of her head. ]
Okay.
[ ...She's so unnaturally warm. Gods, he's so worried about her.
But rest is what the two - really, the three of them desperately need, and her form gently curved within his quiets his thoughts enough to allow for his utter exhaustion to take over. It's mercifully easy to let sleep take him, then, though his rest is littered with dreams, reliving the day, imagining what the next one might bring. They pepper his night with bouts of wakefulness that claw at his chest - but then he feels her form against him, her steady, unfaltering presence even when she herself is ill, and he's able to sleep once more. ]