Great Room ✗ Nov 1 ✗ 3:18 AM
After Jordan fell asleep, Teryn stayed on the couch beside him and tried to relax. She leaned back against the cushions and took deep breaths in and out. Every little noise made her jump. She couldn’t remember a time when she was more on edge than she was now. Unfortunately, now that everyone was asleep, she had nothing else to focus on other than her own thoughts and feelings. They were the last thing she wanted to focus on. She couldn’t figure them out. Every thought was tangled up together with the others like Apple earphone strings.
The dark bruises that the vines had made when they’d wrapped around her legs earlier were throbbing. Her thickly striped tights might have covered them from being seen by anyone else, but she could sure as hell feel them. If she didn’t know better, she might have believed they were still wrapped around her legs now. The pain and the worry and the guilt of the evening had started to stir up and excite the voices in her own head. She could hear them faintly, starting to gnaw at her ear drums with their suggestions and their comments. She had no noise to drown them out like she might have usually done with music or television or anything else to access. Instead, she just had to sit and try to will them away while she reclined with her eyes half closed in the darkness.