Essentia Animus

19-Informative Negotiation

Just as suddenly as night came to end the evening, morning came to end the night. As morning arrived, dawn was quick to follow, bringing with it a fresh new day.

Ryixia was personally very aware of the passage of the night, having been witness to the entire process in her sleep. Exactly as sleep had taken her, her spectre had left her, leaving her to drift around the room as her body recovered in sleep. It was clear to her that this was just the way her life worked, that not even sleep would steal her awareness into the night. This left her with another concern with how this whole spectre thing worked, that the hours she spent in sleep would become some of the most boring hours of her life. She had even tried to spend some of the night as a slumbering spectre, but it seemed that her spectre had no need of sleep itself, making such sleep elusive.

This itself rendered dawn as a form of conflict. With dawn came the knowledge that she could just wake up and actually do real things finally, that boredom could be brought to an end. However, her body itself did not seem as excited about the same promises, being very relaxed and comfortable. The whole situation thus left her inwardly torn, impressing on her even more desire to actually have a way to be productive while her body slept. Anything to do was better than sitting there doing nothing. As the need overwhelmed her, she poked her head through the door, looking around. The halls were still quiet at this hour of the morning, but she found the staff were already awake and tending to some of the basic responsibilities. The receptionist was even already at the front counter, at that very moment claiming someone's keys. It lent her some concern if the girl was even ever allowed to get any sleep. Thinking back, she was pretty certain the girl wasn't there for a while during the night, possibly during the hours the door remained locked. Even though there might not have been anything stopping her from snooping into all the rooms overnight, she really didn't want to intrude on people's privacy.

"Wake up, where did you go?" "Too early, let me sleep more." "Then where are you?" "I'm just outside, so please, just a bit longer." Vwyx startled Ryixia awake for a moment, although she was capable of keeping her spectre right where it was. Sleep returned to her soon after that, but she realized that it was at least time for her to return to the room spectrally as well. She got there in time to see Vwyx peeking her head out the door, looking around for her. Seriously, wasn't she allowed to go out for a short walk at all? Well, more of a drift, she didn't really walk like this. Walking was still almost as easy of a consideration for her, she learned last night that even though she did technically float a bit off the ground, she couldn't really fly any more than she could jump. She was fortunate to have also learned that falling through a window hadn't actually hurt her either, at least not the way falling usually felt, even though it was somehow very uncomfortable in its own way.

"Saw anything interesting? ... Right, you can't actually answer like that, and anyone watching would think I'm talking to myself. We can talk about it after you wake up, then. Oh! Sryine, you're up too now." "Yes, I'm up. I'm guessing either the staff is paying us some welcome wishes, or Ryixia is outside." "Yes, she's outside, though maybe she should wake up now. As soon as she's awake, we could get going." Vwyx pulled her head back inside and went to get ready for the day, Sryine having already taken the lead in the day's preparation. Ryixia returned to her body, taking note that she probably didn't want to fall behind in this process. As she brought herself to a complete state of wake, she cleared her actual eyes, the sun blinding them for a moment. It really was too early.

"There isn't any reason to hurry so much, by the way. It seems that normally we get a complimentary breakfast, some of the staff are already working on it already. There is a breakfast room at the end of the hall where the food can be picked up from, to bring to your room. They have a small lounge too, though they are still working on getting the room ready." "What? Really? Oh yeah, the brochure does actually say something about that. I guess we kinda didn't qualify yesterday, which is probably fair. Since I'm already ready, I'll look into some breakfast then." Ryixia continued getting ready as Sryine left the room. Vwyx silently took regards of the conversation, taking note on how Ryixia might have been keeping busy last night. Vwyx could only imagine what it might be like to go through the same thing, stepping free of her body to spend the long night just watching, every single day.