”You know…” Mami tried to focus on the road, but once again, her thoughts were going up and down. Maybe because of the trouble she had had with sleep, lately, she had the biggest difficulties concentrating, when it wasn’t about work or seeing her friends - things she was used to doing all the time. Every single conversation, even the easiest one, was an incredibly tiring task. And she had started speaking to herself even more than what she had done until then, possibly because loneliness was one of the causes of her sleeping problems. Anyway, she was still watching the road and driving slow enough, so neither her nor Maiti would be in trouble in the end, and with a short glance to the sleeping little girl, she gave a faint smile, to then very slowly move a blonde hair strand from her sleeping face. “You know, when I was your age… I used to think life was easy and normal, for everyone. I thought there were children to protect, and superheroes to protect them. I thought my parents were never going to die, and my brother was going to be a famous chemical ingineer.” She chuckled. “On the last one I was almost right, though!” Lost in her memories, not all that happy, she inclined her head slightly on the left. “I used to think… my father was a superhero. That nothing could make him fall down, not even the biggest villain ever, not even the witches from the Disney movies, and that he would always be here to protect the one he was calling ‘my little princess’… I thought I would never have to question this…” She sniggered briefly. “But you know what, Maiti…? I’ve never been so wrong in my whole life…”
Maiti was tired, sicne she packe dup herself and surely played a lot with the older before they finally headed to the road. It didn't take too much for the drive to be the perfect lullaby for the child, who fell aslepp easily.
But after some time, the sleep was enough and she started to wake up. It was night already, but Maiti felt like she needed to sleep more. She could listen to the older's voice, but she couldn't understand since her brain was still on its sleepy mode.
The blond whimpered lightly, shifiting her body to a better position on the car seat, rubbing her eys with the back of her hands.