Beauty within the beast

The plan

It was a long,sleepless, fearful night for me. I could barely get three hours of sleep in, it was late when I got back to the hotel last night, so I didn't have much more hours to sleep in. Now, it's already five in the morning.

Last night, I couldn't help think of how this plan is going to fail, especially since it's up to me. I can barely win against one person, let alone eight of them! Not to mention that I am injured. It doesn't help at all that  I can't run as much as I usually do, and ontop of all this mess, I have to do at least one round before the firebox.

This isn't fair. Which is why i'm hoping roman can convince ashton to sneakily postpone the firebox round until tomorrow. A day to go over the plan, a day to rest and gain strength, a day to at least talk to my family one more time. If I happened to parish...

I'm up this early for only one reason. For this plan. I am supposed to meet up with roman in the lobby, where ashton should be. It is important that  ask if he can send some of his men to guard my house, we already rescued silvia, so hopefully that shouldn't be a problem.

Speaking of silvia, she was snuck into my room last night, and is sleeping on my floor. But only for tonight, She will have to go live under her uncles protection until everything is cleared, which she clearly did not like.

It wasn't as if she loathed ashton, or was angry, she seemed to be ashamed and scared.

Enough of thinking, I guess it's time to get dressed and ready, and wake the beast from her slumber.

Poor silvia. She woke up several times screaming and thrashing around, which is one of the reasons why it was difficult to sleep. I wasn't angry with her, not at all... I was too busy being swallowed by my guilt. That was supposed to be me! Not silvia. She saved me from that and suffered the consequences I was supposed to endure. I used to dislike silvia, I was even close to the form of hating her, but that was until I knew about what really happened.

I groggily get up, bending over silvia's sleeping form, nudging her with my hand. Her snoring stops, following out by a low groan. She rolls over, trying to ignore this disturbance. Sighing, I kneel down beside her, grabbing her gently by her shoulders and begin to lightly shake her. Which I am now learning is a BIG mistake.

She lets out a frightened cry,her hand flying up, hitting me square in the mouth. I fall flat onto my back, my hand flying to my mouth as blood begins to trickle down. Ouch.

Why must I be so stupid?

"Dam*! I'm so sorry!" I feel silvia beside me as she helps me sit up. It is as if the room is spinning, I can even feel myself swaying. She certainly can pack a punch, now I actually believe how dangerous she actually is in the arena!

"I didn't know that was you..." she mutters as she hands me a napkin. Snapping out of my daze, I grab the napkin and begin dabbing my lip. I know i shouldn't be mad at her, so I force my narrowed gaze to the floor. I am a really grumpy morning person, I can't help but glare at something!

"It's alright, I guess I shouldn't of woken you up in that manner.." I grumble. She helps me up, and helps me stumble to the bed. I'm still under effect of her powerful punch. She even has an advantage over me in her sleep!

"You need something for that?" she winces as she turns on the hotel room lamps, the bright light pierces our eyes in an unfriendly way.

"God, I hate light." she groans as she takes a seat beside me. We should be getting ready, but I guess we have a little bit to sit here and gather our minds. We have to meet at the lobby in about fifteen minutes, hopefully ethlania won't be up at this time. Hence how early we have to be up.