She'll just tug off their shoes first...

She successfully gets her hair sticks out after one pokes her in the skull, too, then wraps herself around El like a limpet and buries her face in her neck.

"You're warm..."

"And you're clingy." She squirms a bit to a more comfortable position.

She squirms, too, so El's draped over her a bit - helps when she doesn't have any heavy blankets. Then yawn and snuggle, eyelashes fluttering as she starts to drift.

"Night, El..."

"Good night, Lion."

And Bellona drifts off to sleep.

- And to dreams -

- Echoes, of the time when the Ring had El, when El was being -

Except they're adults like now, Bellona's in her body, El isn't obsessed with the ring - she's turning away from Bellona anyways, though, avoiding her, and it's the same pattern, what did Bellona do to make her sister mad -

- The dream scenes don't make much sense, shattered and stitched together and weirdly warped, but Bellona knows, in the way she knows things in dreams, that El's looking at - someone else - like how Ellie looks at Ruby - and Bellona's armor emerges from under her skin and traps her again -

Her actual sleeping body freezes, at that point, limbs unnaturally stiff, face twisting.

"Mrph." Lion? "Lion?"

Poke poke.

She jerks awake, eyes wide, shaking.

"E-El?"

"'re you 'kay?"

Her head hurts and she's gotten not much sleep and her heart's racing and she's still really drunk and nauseous and thirsty and dizzy and also now she's inexplicably scared and crying apparently???

She hugs El tightly, whining. "Nightmare..."

"Shh, shh, I'm here, it's okay..."

Whine and nuzzle. She shakes a bit, crying, but eventually El can get her back to sleep. (Even as confused thoughts spin through her head...)

She doesn't have a second nightmare at least - actually dreams she and El are in a desert palace and everyone's acting like Bellona is a tamed lion even though she's human shaped, and El keeps petting her - and wakes up groggy and nauseous and still kinda drunk and very hungover.

Also still remembering both dreams rather vividly. Seriously brain. The palace one was so much nicer...

She clings to El until El wakes up on her own.

"G'mornin..." she mumbles sleepily.

"Morning, sleepy head," she says, nuzzling her face into El's shoulder. Actually maybe that was a bad move, now the bed's spinning.

Vague unidentifiable waking up noises.

Vague unidentifiable dizzy nausea noises!

She's going to hunker down and not move. El's probably gonna have to get her own coffee.

...If Bellona lets go of her.

Nudge.

Firmer nudge.

She whines.

...But lets El out of her grasp. A bit reluctantly, but.

Tough. El's got things that need seeing to before she will admit to facing the day.

But maybe she can try for a hangover cure while she's up. What's that need, water and electrolytes and something to convince Lion to drink it...

El can find the ingredients for those pretty easily - there's cups and tap water, and also Ruby seems to have snuck in and left a gift basket on the counter at some point in the night. It has things that are probably fruit, for one, and a powdered sports drink mix with bonus electrolytes, for two, and coffee and a coffee machine with instructions for how to operate it, for three and four. There's also a closed insulated box with some ice in it.

Bellona also actually seems willing to drink just about anything El puts in her hands. (She's feeling weird and anxious on top of all the hungover, and desperately wants to cling to El more...)

Very considerate set of alts they have.

Respective morning drinks acquired, El is willing to sit and cuddle. (She figures she owes it to Bellona at the least, to make up for lost time.)

Bellona's very snuggly, though kind of miserable.

"I'm never getting that drunk again..." she mutters.

"Good to know you're a two-drink maximum."

"Or drinks here are really alcoholic but lie by adding sugar."