more_than_tools | Comes a creeper creeping

Who: Glass and Jack?
When: Some time past a midnight!
What: It's best not to go out alone!

She slipped around the edge of the curtains Khemrys had hung to give them all their spaces and knelt by the cot. Tsk. He'd kicked his blankets off again, chilly little weirdo that he was. She could never get that, blankets were amazing, but then again she was something of an addict when it came to soft things.

Regardless she was going to poke his shoulder, yes, with a finger freshly out of a cast even! "Lazybones," she whispered, "come on or I'm leaving without you. This was your idea!" Or rather he asked where she snuck off to at nights because he was a snoop like that and it was probably easier to just show him than tell him!

And hell, she had some money to make tonight. Khemrys had done well at the local co-op vegetable stand but food money never lasted, that was something she knew all to well. She'd feel better if she could get a nice cushion into the elder kid's hands, and the sooner the better. Some of the kids were looking peaky, which meant they needed better meals, right?

Right.

She was just glad she didn't have to worry about what those better meals were and all that. That many details would probably drive her nuts. "Count of three." And that was three taps, not spoken three, she was pushing it with whispers she'd already given him!

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Blankets weren't terrible or anything, but they got kind of hot and stifling and like sleeping in a furnace after a while, so of course he ended up kicking them off. She would, too, if she was like him. So there.

He started upright on the second tap, eyes still half-mast but theoretically mostly awake. "Huh?! What? I'm awake! I-..." The rest of him caught up with his voice, making him bite off whatever else he might have said. Luckily, they were all used to waking up with nightmares, so that alone wouldn't draw much attention. He scrubbed the sleep out of his eyes, almost properly alert once he focused on her again, and his voice a proper murmur this time. "We're going now?"

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