Chapter 264: Arc 4, Act II, - 109: Sleeping Blondie
Lashes intertwined with lashes, her breathing in a slow rhythm. Her jaw began to open and slackly hung, only for a finger to poke under her chin and close her mouth so she did not drool onto the pillow.
"Hmm... mmmh..." in her sleep she muttered.
"She looks so peaceful," Asobi whispered.
"That she does," Hotaru caressed Jotou’s cheek, interlacing her fingers through the blonde strands over her left ear and unfurling them to tuck them behind said ear.
Back in their tent they were; no seeming damage from the chaos brought by the Rainstorm Slasher. As for Jotou, no visible injury on her either.
Her hair was fanned out over the pillows, sleeping on her side. Hotaru sat on a chair right beside, Asobi at the end of the bed as they both watched her sporadically mutter in her sleep for hours now.
Fumeko kept an eye, sitting on a chair from which Jotou had turned away from in her sleep. She glanced to Hotaru across the sleeping form as the redhead had her fingers trailing around Jotou’s cheek.
With knuckles to her own cheek, her brown eyes rolled and darted to the side, noticing that the day had gone past sunrise. Fumeko threw her twin-tails behind her and stretched her arms.
Asobi reached a hand forward and petted Jotou’s exposed shoulder. Little by little the elf smiled, seeing Jotou unperturbed with just a tiny smirk on the blonde’s face.
She pulled her hand away. Jotou muttered something in her sleep and the smile faded away. The blanket she was under shifted and her left arm came out from under the sheets.
Though her attempt was uncoordinated, Jotou reached for Asobi’s departing hand in her slumber. Seeing this, Asobi inched her hand forward till Jotou could sense she caught it.
Jotou’s head and shoulders dug into the bed, pulling Asobi’s entire arm towards her body. Asobi was forced to lean forward whilst Jotou hugged Asobi’s hand like a teddy bear.