Restless Sleep.

Besides the soft warm breathing of Lexie laying next to you, the room itself was completely silent. You laid there, on your back, just staring up at the ceiling for who knows how long. Every time you closed your eyes your mind would race with thoughts. You let out a deep sigh, irritated that you can't just **** yourself to sleep.

Your eyes continue to trace the patterns on the ceiling, moving across the lines, the cracks and fixtures above. You turn your head to the wall next to you, zoning out at the unpatterened piece of wall, hoping if your eyes have nothing to fixate on you will grow tired. No luck. You turn your head the other way and know this isn't going to work either as now you're looking at Lexie, her cute little face just softly breathing away as she sleeps. You hate to say it but just watching her sleep, she looks so innocent, so pure, so...sexy. You lick your lips just watching her, smelling her, feeling her...

You clench your eyes and turn your head, focusing back up towards the ceiling "Get a hold of yourself Darien..." you mumble to yourself as you once more begin tracing the random patterns on the ceiling with your eyes.

"Screw this..." you groan to yourself as you carefully start to pull yourself up. You inch your body around Lexie's, doing your best not to wake her up. After a long minute you were able to move around your sleeping Sunrider and get out of bed. You couldn't help but grin as you saw her body move slightly, her arm softly moving towards the pillow and pulling it into her body. Even when she's asleep, she wants to be holding what her body thinks is probably you.

You decide that taking a walk might be a great way to ease your thoughts, and you thought some fresh air might help as well. Hopefully that was allowed because you may open the door to find guards right outside not allowing you to roam at all.

Creaking the door open, you step out into the dim hallway. The castle itself was fairly dark besides a few lite torches along the walls. The large windows allowing in some of the moonlight from the outside as well. You saw a few guards sitting in chairs but it appears none of them really cared you were out of your room. You thought it was odd but then again, you did remember they need you so they probably were ordered to leave you be.

You start walking down the darkened hallway, your head bobbing side to side as you look between all the artwork hung up, all the golden and glass fixtures and even the marble columns and pillars around the castle. You took a deep breath, inhaling some cool night air that was gusting in through an open window and that's when you remembered a certain balcony which would be a perfect spot to just relax and get some fresh air. That little balcony where you spied on Ashe and Hawk from above. That little balcony that looked out into the back castle courtyard and had two chairs and a tiny table. "Huh...Hawk..." you think "Wonder what happened to him..." another thing now on your mind as you haven't seen, or spoke to him since right before taking over Murnic.

Walking through the hallways some more, you finally reach the wooden door to that tiny little balcony. Without much thought you push it open and immediately are hit with the cool night air. You take ten steps forward and place both your hands on the railings of the balcony, inhaling a deep breath, closing your eyes and just holding your lungs full of that refreshing air.

After a long while, you lean your head down and exhale all that cool air back out of your body, just letting yourself relax completely.

"Good evening..." a deep voice from behind you let's out "Darien..."