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CatFall - Part 7

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Part 7: Sleep Now or Forever Hold Your Peace
Throughout the next three hours, however, I assume Lefer busied himself with cleaning out the lab, so I had no reason to strike up a conversation with him. Instead, after about twenty minutes, I sat back and fell asleep.
I know, I know, ‘How can you sleep at a time like this!’, but if you’ll kindly recall, I hadn’t slept a wink in two days. I was tired.
When I awoke, Zet was standing a little ways off, smiling slightly. I blinked groggily, yawning and looking around. “You just missed Lefer,” he informed me, “He walked out a minute ago.”
Stretching out as best I could in the cramped space, I looked up, grinning. “I think I must have radar on him. That, or I’m just extremely lucky, and I don’t think that's the case,” I said, gesturing at my surroundings.
Zet winced slightly at my wry joke. “Actually, I’m surprised that you were able to relax enough to sleep, considering.”
“Considering that I haven’t slept for two days, with the exception of being knocked out?”
“Ah. In that case, I guess I should be surprised you didn’t sleep longer,” he exclaimed, raising his eyebrows.
“You could call it a cat nap.”
“I suppose I could,” he chuckled.
We were silent for a little while longer, either of our minds somewhere else. Finally, Zet cleared his throat – Do scientists have a class on throat clearing? – and straightened his jacket. “You should... Probably get some more sleep. It’ll be morning soon,” he said.
I blinked. “Yeah. I guess so. ‘Night, then.”
With that, I laid back and fell asleep.
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I know many of you probably find it more than a bit odd that I keep falling asleep so easily, but keep in mind that your average snow leopard needs about 14-16 hours of sleep. An average teenage human needs 8-9. Logically, I need something between those amounts to function properly, and at that point I was seriously lacking.
... ^_^'' So I haven't uploaded in forever. Whoops. Sorry 'bout that... And this chapter's so short... Well, the next one is longer, I promise! Anyways, comments are as always welcomed and appreciated :]
Enjoy! ;)

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