Close your eyes, and I'll sing you a song...
Lullaby, sleep until the dawn.
"Don't worry," he said as he stood by the door preparing to leave again. "I'll be back before tomorrow. I promise." but those promises were never kept. He would show up biannually. Never more, never less. So why did she hang on to his words like this?
The birds are in their nests.
And the cows are in the barn.
The birdsong had finally ceased. But she missed it, it was what kept her company through the nights. But alas, winter grew closer with each passing minute. And the trees had already begun to shed their blankets of color, for the bareness that was hibernation.
The covers on your bed,
will keep you safe and warm.
She curled up in the blankets and frowned down at her novel. Deep in thought, reading some romantic nonsense that she had just come to realize was indeed nonsense after all. To love was to destroy.
Don't worry!
I'll be beside you, should you call.
Snorting her contempt as his "generous" offer she declined. She was no whore. But when his Parabatai offered to sleep next to her, she so gladly excepted. He was a much kinder man and he loved her genuinely.
Almost as if they were meant for each other.
to love is to destroy...
Just go to sleep now,
close your eyes.
No matter how hard she tried, her mind could not focus on the book she was currently reading. She had been on the same page, reading the same paragraph for at least half an hour. She could not find sleep.
Close your eyes, listen to my song.
Lullaby, sleep 'til morning comes.
It was absurd thinking. Sleep, which typically came as naturally as being herself (whatever that was), just would not come to her at all this week. Not until the early morning hours when he returned from his "outings".
The crickets serenade, echoes softly through the night...
The stars are on the lake, and the moon is shining bright.
Luna, she noted, was gleaming down at her tonight. With serrated eyes that glittered starlight, and sharp teeth that devoured the night. It poetry, she assumed.
Don't worry!
I'll leave the light on in the hall.
The witchlight never worked with her obviously, but she did like trying just to make sure... So she grabbed one, the illuminating effect it had with the others did not happen with her. Which she was relieved of.
Just go to sleep now,
Close your eyes.
I was a cruel joke, everybody was asleep but her. Unaware of her conflicting thoughts and emotions. But she honestly preferred it this way. No one would worry.
When someone worried, she would worry... she didn't like to be worried.
Dragons in the sky!
Flying with their golden treasure.
Money, the one thing she never had a lot of. Not that she minded, she liked her mediocre style of life with her Aunt and brother. God forbid she'd one day lose this Haven.
And if you catch an eye!
Wishes granted more than you can measure.
She knew what she'd wish for. His health. Nothing was more important than that. She thought of this while she lay in bed... heaving a sigh she turned onto her side.
I'll be beside you. Should you call.
Just go to sleep now close your eyes.
Suddenly sleepy... she felt herself slipping out of a conscious state of mind.
Just go to sleep now close your eyes...
her eyes drooped closed. Finally after four days she might get a little bit of sleep.
Just... go to sleep now... close... your eyes.
Sleeping was the most wonderful thing she had ever experienced, she decided as a last thought.
Well it was almost sleep, until a certain Herondale had to ruin everything.