Veil — Vol. 2 - Chapter 21

Two slumbers

[Aleksander]: Hey... Good morning.

[Aleksander]: For a reason I won't tell you, I woke up...

[Emma]: It's not quite morning yet, though, is it?

[Aleksander]: It has to be around one o'clock, something like that.

[Emma]: Hello.

[Aleksander]: It's not like there's going to be any big issue if we tell each other...

[Emma]: And you're speaking like a baby.

[Aleksander]: I could fall asleep right here and now...

[Emma]: But nothing proves we're up for the same reason.

[Aleksander]: Oooh... I really do feel like I'm turning into a baby...

[Aleksander]: But my room is sooo far away, at least twenty steps from here...

[Aleksander]: I'm afraid you won't be able to carry me that far...

[Emma]: Well...

[Emma]: Isn't that strange?

[Emma]: Me, too.

[Aleksander]: Aha... Well then...

[Aleksander]: If it's for the same reason...

[Aleksander]: That's true...

[Emma]: You're slouch- ing...

[Emma]: Are you trying to tell me...

[Emma]: I should carry you to bed?

[Emma]: My room is right here.

[Aleksander]: Even with that drowsiness weighing you down...

[Aleksander]: I think I could carry you there fairly easily.

[Emma]: My services don't include making the bed...

[Emma]: Though you are my "baby" ...

[Emma]: That sure woke me up...

[Aleksander]: Don't forget to lock the door.

[Emma]: And you go sleep in your own room.

[Aleksander]: of course.

[Aleksander]: Goodnight.

Her monologue.

[Emma]: I bit my lips. He clicked his boots three times. He does that when he's proud of himself. It's something I know. It's not nice to show how secure you are, mister. You tickle me with your words.

[Emma]: I love everything that's foamy, steamy. Scarves, headscarves. I press them against my cheek, they're soft. The other day, he was watching me do it, and he said: "Like a child." I had to explain how the face works as a third hand. It's important, after all. "And how would we shake hands uisng this third?" He asked. "Shake hands, hmmm...?", it didn't take me long. Though the solution that came to me was embarrassing.