[She mutters, watching him closely as he goes about the room to turn off the lights. There's only one bed in the room, and she sticks to a corner of the edge while she waits for him to lie down. It's only once he does that she goes about a routine of her own, tiptoeing across the carpet as silent as possible, double checking the locks and pulling chairs in front of the door just as an extra precaution. The bathroom door is pushed open so she can see all the way inside, and once she's done a couple of walk throughs that involve her pressing her ear against the wall to hear into the room next door for signs of danger she makes her way over to sit in the armchair.
She sits there watching him, keeping guard over the room that's become their temporary safe space. When she eventually gets tired, she moves from the chair to the carpet to sleep. The iPod that she had taken from Nate Munson lulls her to rest, the rhythmic beats of the boy's songs helping keep any dreams at bay. ]
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Date: 2017-04-17 08:22 am (UTC)[She mutters, watching him closely as he goes about the room to turn off the lights. There's only one bed in the room, and she sticks to a corner of the edge while she waits for him to lie down. It's only once he does that she goes about a routine of her own, tiptoeing across the carpet as silent as possible, double checking the locks and pulling chairs in front of the door just as an extra precaution. The bathroom door is pushed open so she can see all the way inside, and once she's done a couple of walk throughs that involve her pressing her ear against the wall to hear into the room next door for signs of danger she makes her way over to sit in the armchair.
She sits there watching him, keeping guard over the room that's become their temporary safe space. When she eventually gets tired, she moves from the chair to the carpet to sleep. The iPod that she had taken from Nate Munson lulls her to rest, the rhythmic beats of the boy's songs helping keep any dreams at bay. ]