creeping into bed meme||accepting
Vanora doesn’t expect him to show up to her rooms, much less to show up with a request for help. Tyler had been nothing but stubborn, as so many of the warriors here were, and refused help unless she’d forced him to sit and let her tend to his wounds and hurts. It was a familiar game to her, one she’d learned to play with nearly all of the veteran warriors too proud and tough to admit that even they needed help sometimes. With the taint, he had asked once about sleeping draughts, a way to keep the nightmares away. She had worked on a few formulas, finally finding one that worked best. Fast, effective, and without the grogginess in the morning.
He looks upset, out of his element, and maybe even a little embarrassed to be at her personal rooms this late at night. Who knows. Whatever it is, he manages to do his best to compose himself, shifting his weight to his other leg as he speaks.
“I wondered....do you have more of that potion? The nightmares are...bad. It’s been hard to sleep the past couple of--”
Already she’s pulling him inside, ushering him over to one of the chairs. He should have come when he’d run out...there has to be a bottle here somewhere. It only takes a moment to find the little vial, deep blue contents shimmering slightly. When she hands it over some of the tension eases from the Warden’s shoulders, the man uncorking it and downing half of it before she can warn him to wait. She doesn’t ask why he only takes half. He’ll be asleep in minutes, not enough time to get him back to his rooms. Sighing, she directs him to one of the chaises in the room, tossing a blanket over him as he starts to doze.
Sometime in the middle of the night he wakes up, still tired, but untroubled by dreams. The chaise isn’t particularly comfortable, giving him a crick in his neck, and there’s plenty of space in the bed. So long as he doesn’t wake her up, it wouldn’t be that bad...would it? Finishing off the vial that Vanora had provided, he creeps over, trying his best to slip soundlessly into the bed so as not to disturb her. It works well, the healer out cold, and Tyler soon finds himself in the same position. When Vanora wakes the next morning she’s shocked to find the Warden beside her, sleeping soundly. Instead of screaming and scolding him for sneaking into bed when she was asleep, she sighs, glad that at least he’s had a good night of sleep, and gets out of bed to begin her day, leaving Tyler to sleep as long as he likes.
