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The morning sun trickled faintly through the leaves above. It would be pleasant, if Selna hadn't gone to bed only a few hours before. Right now it was like the faint twinkling of the stars, only magnified to needles piercing through her eyelids. Beside her, Dean was curled up in the nest of grass they had gathered the night before. As she watched him pull a larger leaf over his head, she considered solving her problem with her hoodie. "Oh, but the professor..." She thought.
It was at the behest of her parents that she went to the professor. They barely asked anything of her, so she tried to fulfill at least this reasonable request. The moon was most of the way though the sky as she had stood at the gate. The lights were out, and they probably weren't at the Lab now anyway. She had forgotten; most people didn't wander about at night. There was nothing to be done about it, so she set out with Dean to make camp out among the flowers; taking care to go far enough that no one would be bothered. But that was last night, and now the sun was making it's way through the sky; searing only to Selna's eyes.
With a sigh she pulled herself up, brushing blades of grass off her clothes. Taking a moment to pad the hood with some of the grass, she gently lifted Dean up and placed him inside. "Eyaannn?" He muttered. "Shhhh..." Came her response, soothing him back into slumber. She stood, more grass falling to the roots of the tree. Before her was as sea of flowers, the path they walked last night was already gone; petals turning to the sun, and brushed away by the breeze. Beyond was the city, sprawling out into the distance. The ground fell off the the left, the sea crashing far below on the cliff-side, wingull circling the spray. It was almost enough to take the edge from the sun's rays.
Slowly she walked back into town, the lack of sleep evident by the steps she took, and the more-blank-than-usual expression the occasional passerby saw. Eventually, she arrived at the Lab once again; a song on repeat, but much more groggy the second time around.