[ Her concern will not falter ; for it is no more than a mere force of habit to care for those around her. it is the plagued birthright from her own mother & she will suffer beneath the weight of her Achilles Heel until the day it becomes her undoing. a miniscule curl of her lips would substitute a proper smile as she allows a hum of acknowledgement ]
❝You know I was scared to go to sleep loads of times after my mum died ; I get it —— you don’t fancy remembering. But you can only go so long without a good rest before you fall asleep in the middle of a supplies run.❞
{ There’s nothing worse than when a child loses a parent. It had changed Carl, and not for the better. It had probably changed her too. He’d been told about her loss before, they’d traded stories of what life had been like before the apocalypse, how it had changed soon after. They were not the people they had been before. }
❝ I know. It’s a risk, and sleep is important. I want to sleep, trust me, I do. I just can’t. If I close my eyes, I might not wake up. ❞