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Sorry it took me so long to get this up! and can we back date it a couple days, like around the 13th or 14th? =)
Everything Anann had done to keep her thoughts clear and set to the future was failing her now. Ever since her argument with Heath she had been unable to sleep. It had little to do with the disagreement it's self, but for the past several months Anann had slept next her horse. She now found it nearly impossible to sleep peacefully without the rise and fall of his breathing beneath her. He was her security blanket and her truest friend. But in avoiding Heath she was also avoiding the stables. It seemed Rem found his stall next to the mare, Lumiere much more suitable than sleeping outside with Anann. The lack of sleep only adding to her frustration at the two males.
It wasn't Rem and Heath that truly troubled Anann's thoughts. It was Keese. And dreams of battles already lived through. Staying away from the stables had only proved to Anann how lonely she really was without her horse by her side. She missed the man she had left behind and worried about her people. Her decision to leave had been made with her people's interest in mind. But now she wondered what fate she had left them to. Her dreams and thoughts a like were a mottled mess of the two concerns. Horrific flashes of a war being fought while helplessly she watched the slaughter ensue. Only to next be in Keese's arms again and hear his refusal to come with her. Without sleep she had lost the focus that had kept these thoughts locked away in the back of her mind. Tired and emotionally weakened they had bombarded her.
Anann wondered as she trudged towards the hotel, if she looked as haggard as she felt. She felt like her face was drooping and her eyelids weighted. The actual embrace of sleep seemed so close, yet so far. Her body ached for it but her mind would not slow its whirling buzz. When she had explored the hotel she had smelt the faintest hint of healing herbs. She hoped to find the healer and perhaps she would know a sleep draft. Anann only wanted a few hours of peaceful, dreamless sleep. She did not want to be buried under the dark cloud of these thoughts any longer. If she could only get some sleep, some peace of mind.
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