[h3][b][color=92278f]Katherine[/color][/b][/h3]
She’s a light sleeper. She likes to blame it on her mattress. Too bad it’s on the lam. Left her with this slab of pure miracle—a nice enough parting gift, but a poor substitute for the excuse. Insomnia isn’t exactly what she’d call it, because she doesn’t exactly call it anything. If she doesn’t get enough sleep, that’s her problem. No use complaining, and if anyone asks, well, it’s the mattress. Really ought to get a new one. Wish granted. Christ. 

A footstep plucks her from her delirious thoughts in an instant. It comes from somewhere across the room—what room—what—she opens her eyes and is greeted with an utterly unfamiliar sight. Slats locking snugly into the sides of a frame, the underside of a quilted mattress—again the mattress—not—where—

A shout. Panicked, putting forth some word, some phrase that escapes her half-awareness. She freezes. Every muscle locks, but not quite as tight as those slats, and she can’t take her eyes off of them. And she can’t look, and she can’t—oh, this has got to be some sort of nightmare, or dream, really, because somebody falls right past her from on high or something, and that’s too silly to be a real nightmare. Hysteria bubbles around her teeth. She swallows a laugh. Maybe if she just lies here and pretends not to exist, she won’t. She can wake up on her shitty mattress and pull a citizen’s arrest on it. Vigilante justice sounds great. Stomp it right into the curb. Ha! The fallen angel or whatever curses really loudly. Maybe this [i]is[/i] a fun dream.

[color=ed145b]“...just a dream. Chill out.”[/color]

Right. Just a dream. Chill, she’s so chill. She rolls over and sits up. Across the room, two others have also awakened. Blue mist swirls vaguely across her focus before she flicks it back to the closest figure. Clearly strong, but not actively threatening. She doesn’t seem to have noticed Katherine yet. Everything is fine. This is totally a dream. It is. [color=92278f]“Yeah, man,”[/color] she says casually. See, she doesn’t [i]sound [/i]afraid. She’s fine. She’s [i]fine[/i]. [color=92278f]“Chill out.”[/color]