Karin Shepherd | Tiamat (sheltering_sky) wrote in paxletalelogs, @ 2011-07-30 10:36:00 |
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Entry tags: | dionysus, tiamat |
I Am Here
Who: Ben & Karin.
What: The house mother finds a new ward.
Where: The Pax Letale lobby and beyond!
When: 11:59 p.m.
Warnings: None yet!
It was not the first time Karin found herself unable to sleep, and by now she had come to accept that it would not be the last. She had tried yoga, turning off the air conditioning in her ground floor flat, letting the room warm up as she went through every position she knew. When neither the heat nor the postures – meant for relaxation, meant to focus the mind and calm the body – failed to help, she had turned to wine. But with half a bottle of well-aged Malbec behind her she still did not feel even the slightest weight in her eyelids, and her bed still seemed a million miles away. So she padded, tipsy, into her bedroom, pulling on a pair of black leggings and a tee shirt she’d stolen from Fee, and spent a quarter of an hour searching for a matching pair of ballet flats. Finding none she settled for the pair of flip-flops – Roxy, a blinding shade of pink – she ordinarily wore only to the beach. Still toeing into them, she left the restless comfort of her apartment, and struck out for the dimly lit lobby beyond.
Maybe the pool.
The thought seemed foolish even to her, but pleasantly so; when she managed to sleep at all, she dreamt of the beach, the crashing of the waves both a comfort and a torment. Though the beach was out of her grasp for the moment, the pool would not be; perhaps there, she thought, she might find some peace of mind.