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Shell presses a tiny tentative kiss to Sherlock's neck and sets about trying to fall asleep.

She succeeds. Eventually.

She still talks in her sleep. The words still come without grammar, without correlation to any visible emotional state pervading her unconsciousness, without rhyme or reason.

The word selection is a bit different than Bell's.

"Dark. No - Voice. Someone. Hurts."
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Left to her own devices, Shell will sleep and murmur worrying words for many hours.

She has not had anything to wish to be awake for in many years.
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Then Sherlock will cuddle her, and watch over her, and wait.

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Quite apart from the murmuring, it's plain that Shell has nightmares. She doesn't lash out in her sleep, but she shivers like she's dying of cold, and between words there is the occasional high mournful whine.

She doesn't wake up during the nightmares. This has not been an effective strategy to make her experiences less nightmarish for many years.
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"I love you," Sherlock murmurs, kissing Shell's forehead.

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Shell wakes up.

"Oh," she sighs. "Oh, you're still here, I'm so glad."
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"Yes," she says. "I am still here."

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"That's good. Did you sleep too?"

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"A little."

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"That's good." Shell seems very comforted by the fact that Sherlock can sleep with her in the room, still.

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She smiles very slightly.

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Snuggles.

Shell has nothing at all to do. Bell can take care of the empire. Shell is accustomed to going for a very long time without eating or drinking. She can think of no reason to move at all for the next ever.
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Well.

If they spend long enough like this, Sherlock is going to want to get up and cook.
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Shell will only know this if Sherlock tells her. Shell cannot read Sherlock's mind right now. In fact, despite having asked for coins, the only one she's used is the one that torched her. She is simply no longer accustomed to being able to do anything worth doing at all besides progress through various stages between torch and next torch, let alone with magic.

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"I'm hungry," she says. "I am going to make muffins. Do you want muffins?"

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"Yes," says Shell.

She doesn't appear to make the connection that in order to make muffins from scratch, Sherlock will have to be unburdened by Shell.
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"Shall I carry you to the kitchen?" she suggests.

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So she does.

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Shell still has not conjured up enough inferential power to expect to be put down once they get there.

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How about put down on the counter and immediately kissed?

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Oh, kisses, she's missed those, muffins are instantly abandoned as a possible use of her mouth in favor of lots and lots of enthusiastic whimpery kisses kisses kisses.

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Hmm. Yes. Clearly they have found a higher priority.

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It is the highest priority. Shell has no idea how she managed to neglect this as an instant, first, essential step in Having Sherlock Again, but she is making up for lost time. Decades of it. She's sitting on the counter, so she can wrap her legs around Sherlock's middle, too.

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