When I Wake Up

At first, he believed that she was going to settle back down comfortably and go back to sleep. She seemed content to be curled up against him. Chimera had even let his eyes drift closed, prepared to spend the night asleep on the beach. That was when he felt the first bit of trembling. Ears swiveled and he caught the sound of her staggered breathing and could feel the unsteady rise and fall of her ribcage. Dammit...

With a sigh, Chimera released his light hold upon her, pushing himself away and rolling to lay on his other side in the sand so that his back was to the woman, though his posture was still loose, comfortable and sleepy. "Go if you need. I won't force you to do something that you don't want to do." The brutes tail thumped in the sand and he absently chucked another piece of wood into the fire that had begun to once again die down. Sparks danced into the air then disappeared, but the pair of them were still there. What would she choose to do?

"Speech"