Why was it that mischief was always drawn to this time? Odd noises in Wardenhurst in the dead of night would have usually direceted Delmy to grab her hammer and nearest piece of armor but this particular clatter was of a benignly familiar sort. The soft shatter of glass came not from a window but a petri dish, and the curse not from an intruder but someone who should be beside her in bed. Wardenhurst sleep quarters were usually shared arrangements, but her in her years of service she had acquired and shaped a small hut of her own as her rest and workspace. A workspace that had acquired another member in the past months. Delmy strod out into the living quarters, flipping a leafy lobe over her more light-sensitive eye. The room was still illuminated by the lamps, light softly bleeding from the petaled bulbs. On the table numerous apparatuses were scattered, all cutesy of Delmy's girlfriend, who was presently fumbling around with a brush and pan attempting to sweep up all scattered glass. "Naaffi..." Delmy began quietly, yet still it seemed to shock the asura. "SHIT, Delm," the pudgy asura whipped her head around, ears at 90 degree angles to her head and thick hair contorted at even bizarrer angles. Black bags under her eyes contrasted starkly with her pallid greenish skin, complemented by the black lipstick smeared due to a drowsy absentminded hand. "Nearly scared half my bladder outta me, you usually sneak up on people this late?" "I doubt it was my approach that startled you insomuch as your state of exhaustion," Delmy replied soothingly. "Have you slept at all these past two nights due to that project?" "Biological cryodefense in Krytan skale genera." Naaffi slurred, dumping the glass shards into a small bin. She then shook the dustpan over at the microscope. "A comparative study with non-cryoresistant taxa, I'm close to discerning the biological mechanisms behind it, babe, I fuckin FEEL it." "One wonders how much you can discern such a lack of sleep." "Discovery never sleeps, Delms! Discovery! Never! Sleeps!" "Dicovery is going inevitably to collapse from exhaustion and cease all productivity if she keeps telling herself that." Naaffi let out a rattling puff of air from her mouth, Delmy knew it as a sign she was conceding. The asura leaned one of the rungs of her work stool, staring into the eye of the sylvari before her. It was true, Delmy thought, the statement Naaffi made in the past that their eyes were a near identical shade of red. "A strong counter point," Naaffi began, "but you will need some supplementary points to convince me to stray from such captivating work and to a bed." "It's a bed you share with me." Naaffi broke out into a smirk, "A compelling argument. I admit I must acknowledge that you present the more preferable situation. I will submit one request though." "And that is?" "Carry me?" The asura flashed a wink. "I actually don't think I can feel my legs anymore, Delms." The sylvari let out a low chuckle before scooping up Naaffi in her arms effortlessly. It didn't take long for the asura to doze off in her arms, a whistling snore coming from her teeth before they even crossed into the bedroom.
