She hadn't really slept peacefully any night they'd been in Cambria. There was too much tension, too many chances for something to go wrong in the night. When she did finally sleep, it was fitful and light. She knew she needed the rest, but it continued to elude her.
She would be glad to be home when the time finally came.

As soon as Kasper started making noise in his sleep, she was immediately awake and sitting up in her own bed. Her gaze snapped to Kasper, eyes widening as he started calling out in his sleep and she was suddenly thankful for the potions they had used on their homes to sound proof them when they arrived.

Hopping out of bed, she crossed the room quickly and leaned over Kasper on his bed. "Kasper. Kasper! You're okay, it's just a dream. Wake up!" Reaching out, she attempted to grasp his arms to stop him from flailing around and shake him awake.

Eyes widening slightly with worry, Faylin studied Kasper's face though she knew there was nothing she could do to make this better. Nothing could ever make bad dreams better.

Some of her own tension melted away at his touch and her eyelids fluttered shut as he pulled her into the kiss. They had been working on finding their new normal since that fateful day on the training grounds. Word had indeed spread quite quickly about the new relationship between the lieutenants. They had to be careful about how much they allowed others to see while they were working, but they were slowly figuring things out behind the scenes.

She could feel the heat pouring off of him as he gripped her shirt and held on like his life depended on it. She blinked a few times and swallowed hard as he broke away, asking for her to stay. She glanced back to her own bed in the corner of the room, a fit of nerves bubbling up in her stomach. What if someone came in and found them? What if Lady Norah, of all people, found them in the same bed?

Forcing a smile to her face, she shook her head slightly, "Well, you know it was a dream if you had to come to my rescue instead of the other way around." She glanced at her bed again before huffing out a small breath, "Sure, I can stay here tonight."

She straightened her top before crawling into the free side of the bed and settling against Kasper gently, laying one arm across his chest.

Just until he was asleep. That seemed like a fair compromise, though once she was fully settled against him she doubted her ability to crawl from the bed without disturbing him. She stared across him to the wall on the other side, her head just barely resting against his shoulder.

This was normal behavior, she reminded herself. Completely and utterly normal to share a bed with your significant other, to share the same space so intimately. She needed to relax and learn to be okay with this.

Feeling his hand slip through the strands of her hair, she closed her eyes and released a breath, willing the tension out of her body. As it melted away, her body molded more to his and she found that it was rather comfortable. Her eyes remained closed as she listened to him speak.

A soft chuckle shook her body as she spoke quietly, "Are you trying to butter me up for something?" Compliments were certainly not something she would ever be used to. Falling quiet, she huffed a breath out through her nose. "Maybe it's what we needed, to get away from everything going on back home." And she did miss home terribly. She looked forward to the day they could finally go back, though she wasn't certain they had accomplished much of anything here either.

She nodded against his shoulder. "Yes, I miss home. I don't think they like any Nevermerans here. It is quite clear they would prefer to be independent from our kingdom again." She wondered if the King and his diplomats knew how precarious the situation was in these lands. Lady Norah had seemed to expect the disrespect the Governess had thrown at her, so surely they knew Cambria was not falling in line.

Not to mention the brandings. A grimace crossed her face as she thought of just how useless they had been here so far. Sure, they had proven the brandings were happening, but what had they really been able to do about it? What would they ever be able to do about it? She was afraid any sort of action would be the spark that caused a war.

She tightened her hold slightly on Kasper, trying to will the thoughts away. Trying to take comfort in him just as he was in her. "I hope Kat has been doing okay. I wonder if she ever figured out anything about Mina..." she trailed off, sighing. "I'm just ready to be home. We proved the brandings were happening here, but we really can't do anything about them. There's too much tension. It would cause too many problems."

He skipped over the topic of Mina and she let it pass. Some day he would have to speak about her and what had happened, if only so they could try to get some justice for her.

She was quiet for a moment as she considered his question. "I don't think we can really plan for going home, can we? I think we will just have to take everything in stride as it comes up. That's what we have done so far and it's seemed to work." She grimaced into the dark, "And I haven't spoken to my family in years. I don't plan to show up at their doorstep to announce anything to them."

Her tone turned bitter as she spoke about it. "I already know what they would have to say, and I care not for it."