I forced myself awake an hour later only to find myself pinned to the bed by a vampire. He sighed as I moved again and opened his eyes to look at me.
"Will you ever just stay asleep," he asked me.
"What are you talking about," I asked, rubbing my eyes groggily.
"This is the fourth time you've woken up and tried to get away from me in the past hour. Four times Kie-chan. Four times. You need your rest, Kiyo told me to make sure you slept. Well I'm going to have to chain you to the bed if you keep this up," he sighed.
I grinned a little and kissed his cheek.
"That might actually be a wise idea," I told him.
"You do that and then go ask Kiyo how long I have to sleep before she'll allow me back into the war room please?"
He looked at me and laughed a little, until he realized I was serious.
"Kie-chan…" he trailed off with a frown.
"If you don't I will just keep getting up and trying to get back into that room and you'll never get any sleep," I told him.
He frowned a little more and shook his head.
"That seems so cruel," he stated.
"Fine. I'll try and get some sleep then," I mumbled, closing my eyes again and drifting off once more.
When I awoke the next time, I was alone. There was a note laying beside me and I skimmed through it quickly. Takuma had gone to class, Kiyo was still in the war room and refused to come out, and I had finally began to sleep peacefully so he wouldn't wake me.
I sighed and pulled myself out of bed and to my feet, making my way into the war room and dropping into my chair. With a laugh I saw that Kiyo was sleeping, her face planted in the spine of a book as if she had just suddenly passed out and fallen forward. I shook my head and stood up, looking over the maps across the walls and thinking.
Where in the hell could he possibly be? He had to settle at some point, but where? Nothing seemed to make sense to me anymore and the slash on my wrist had finally turned into a scar, but it itched. I felt like I was wasting time now and made my way back to my seat, flipping through the spell book to try and find something, anything that would help us find him.