As Zeph was wondering if any of the officers would manage to even get through one of the virtual practice courses before lunch, the soft comfortable embrace of his blankets and the tranquility of distant illusory lands ruled over by the one known as The Sand Man slowly lost their ability to hold Candi inside of her beautiful and sweet dreams.
The faint amount of natural light reaching her face through the covers made it all the more difficult for her to keep her eyes closed for much longer and they soon started to flutter.
Almost as if against her will Candi's eyelids parted and the light of day began to bombard her eyes with more unpleasantness than normal.
A gnawing feeling grew inside of her, and she felt empty.
Squeezing her legs together, Candi realized that it wasn't just her stomach that felt empty. She had fallen asleep during, right after he made her melt into the sheets again, and now he was gone.
