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Chrysalis Ch15: Performance Anxiety

The diffuse lighting of the day filters through the skylight enough to illuminate the room in a hazy glow. L’s hair and antennae tangle around each other as she rests on her bed, her wings draped over like a thin blanket. She’s used to sleeping until midday, what with the night work at the convenience store. Even so, it had been a late and eventful night, and her rest had been peppered with unsorted anxious thoughts. So it’s sort of… pleasant… to just lie there in a half-awake daze. She can think without really thinking. Drift through the space between consciousness and unconsciousness. Enjoying the in-between-ness of it. She can see Ian’s slumbering form through the half-parted privacy curtain of clothes, out cold and his own blanket halfway off of him. It’s relatively warm in the Glade, but uncovered as he is, there's a tenseness in his body that comes from chill. He’s holding the beat-up cell phone, still plugged into the wall to hold the charge, tight