Chapter 9: Class preparations!

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She was on her bed.

It was one comfy bed, a good mattress, the right amount of springs, and good material on the overall design. The sheets were cold and smooth to the touch but the material breathed well enough, so it had a good airflow and could keep her at a nice temperature, and the mattress would move and accommodate her figure easily enough when she moved and turned trying new positions.

It had one sturdy frame with nice touches, something told her that this wasn't a standard bed, maybe Mother or Father had moved things to get it to her room?

It was probably how she ended up with this bed since they both knew how much she loved sleeping.

Even so, with a nice bed with very good bedding, she was awake.

This would be a problem in most situations since it meant that she couldn't sleep. But the problem wasn't that...

The problem was that she did sleep during the night...

She went to sleep at eleven the last night...She made all her usual rituals for sleeping, brushing her teeth, taking a quick shower, drying her hair, get into her comfy pajama since she didn't want to deal with one of the silk gowns her mother kept sending her way...

They were good material and really comfy to sleep in during the summer...But she wouldn't use them on the first night in a new place...

She put her twenty alarms to make sure she would awake in the morning... And then closed her eyes and welcomed the dreams.

Everything at this point was okay.

The problem was...She was awake now.

And why was that a problem you ask my dear reader?

Because right now it was six in the morning.

Her first alarm wouldn't start making a ruckus till half an hour...

And she was awake already...

"Why have you forsaken me Morpheus," the blonde girl said almost with a tear on her face.

Her favorite activity...And she had plans to oversleep too...

Something along the lines of 'Injury blablabla, loss of blood blablabla, low-pressure blablabla'.

But no...She couldn't turn away from the truth...

She was awake and couldn't sleep, her body wasn't tired anymore.

She felt refreshed, almost like that one time she slept for 18 hours...She was salty about being awakened that one time actually...

Either way, she felt refreshed, and no matter how much she trashed on her bed or swapped positions she couldn't sleep. Not even the warm embrace of her favorite shark-shaped plushie could help her sleep again.

So with heavy steps, she raised her upper body, took off her sleeping mask, turned off the white sound machine and the diffuser that was emitting that sweet lavender scent, and marched onwards to the bathroom.

Of course, she first turned off the twenty alarms that didn't have a chance to be used.

For now, she had important things to ponder about, like, why had she slept so little...

Maybe a remanent effect from one of the spells?

If only she could identify the reason...

"Ah right. I wonder if it works...[Identify]" intoned the blonde girl while focusing on her general health.

Elizabeth Starbright: Currently at the prime of her life, suffering no problems with her general health.
After an invigoration on her constitution, she now has twice the resilience of a normal person, in stark contrast to her previous health, as such she needs half as much sleep as before and will recover faster with less rest.

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