[If either of them reach out and make the wrong move, acknowledge this for whatever it is, send out the wrong vibration, the brittle spider-web thread holding it up would surely break.
But keep soldiering on and don't look at the elephant in the room? Sure. He can do that.]
I sleep...enough. I function. I don't hallucinate or dream when I'm awake, which I'm told is when you've really got to start worrying.
Sleeping pills work, sometimes. Mostly. Some tricky math has to get involved, adjusting around my slightly altered metabolism. Back home I was unfortunately forced to rely on soporifics on a fairly regular basis, to get my forty winks. That and a very thickly-lined sleeping mask.
[And when he had his polymer skin on, then it was basically like having functioning eyelids again. That always helped.]
Which would you rather have, the bad dreams or the restless nights? I know what I would prefer. But then that's probably because one's what I've already got to endure. Grass is always greener, and all that.
[voice ; private]
But keep soldiering on and don't look at the elephant in the room? Sure. He can do that.]
I sleep...enough. I function. I don't hallucinate or dream when I'm awake, which I'm told is when you've really got to start worrying.
Sleeping pills work, sometimes. Mostly. Some tricky math has to get involved, adjusting around my slightly altered metabolism. Back home I was unfortunately forced to rely on soporifics on a fairly regular basis, to get my forty winks. That and a very thickly-lined sleeping mask.
[And when he had his polymer skin on, then it was basically like having functioning eyelids again. That always helped.]
Which would you rather have, the bad dreams or the restless nights? I know what I would prefer. But then that's probably because one's what I've already got to endure. Grass is always greener, and all that.