[Quiet is too easy, though. Alone, too much to ask. Cornelia will be there when he arrives, seated on the sofa and scrolling through old network posts on her iMog. None of what she reads is registering. The oppressively baffling forces of Zero Requiem and this inexplicable new world have fractured her thoughts into such small fragments that she can't bring a single one of them into focus, and she isn't really trying to work against that anymore.]
[She'll give in and go to sleep soon, but first she'll wait another hour to see if anyone arrives to claim the house's second room. As loathe as she is to waste her time idling, she is even less accepting of going to bed without first knowing whose presence she might awaken to in the morning.]
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[She'll give in and go to sleep soon, but first she'll wait another hour to see if anyone arrives to claim the house's second room. As loathe as she is to waste her time idling, she is even less accepting of going to bed without first knowing whose presence she might awaken to in the morning.]