There's another place Summer wouldn't mind Celene sleeping tonight—

"Of course not! What, are you expecting me to just throw you out on the street?"

That's a pretty good point.

"No, I just, wasn't sure where you wanted me to, I mean, were ok with me sleeping? So I just, wanted to check."

"Celene, you can sleep wherever you want."

"Oh, ok."

Obviously she doesn't literally mean "wherever you want" but that's reassuring.

She did actually try to come up with counterexamples. There's an implicit "that does not involve damaging my apartment"—she might object if Celene wanted to knock down a wall and sleep there, or something.

Well, anyways, it's getting late. She'll go to sleep now and hopefully will wake up at a reasonable time tomorrow and then do things like getting her DNA tested.

Celene lies down on the couch.

Who knows, maybe-

no shut up brain why are you like this

Summer's also getting eepy. And she's been trying to fix her sleep schedule lately. ...She'd totally be down to ruin her sleep schedule about Celene, but if Celene's going to sleep anyways she might as well not.

So she also heads into bed and goes to sleep.

Celene closes her eyes. It's pretty hard for her to fall asleep. Her mind is still firing on all cylinders, given... everything.

She thought she was going to die today. Now, she doesn't know what's going to happen.

She'll try to be optimistic? This is a radical enough divergence that her old priors are kind of meaningless here.

Not too optimistic, though. That never ends well for her.

...Ok, she can't actually convince her subconscious to believe a certain thing, unfortunately. Also, her brain is fixated on Summer as well, for some reason? She'll try to get some sleep. 

It's about an hour (well, 1.5 periods) before she actually manages to fall asleep.

For some reason.

Summer wakes up after a solid 12 periods of sleep and immediately hops out of bed like she usually does, takes her morning meds, and then heads to the kitchen to make herself some coffee.

...Oh hey, there's a girl on her couch! She loves when that happens. She's gonna try not to wake up the Celene.

Celene isn't awake yet, but will probably wake up from the noise once Summer starts doing things. It's not a big deal, if she didn't get enough sleep she would just not wake up at all no matter what, even if there was a loud alarm blaring next to her or something like that.

Then when she's getting stuff out to make pancakes, she'll notice Celene waking up and go crouch by the sofa.

"Good morning!"

hruhwhuhghurjjkjbo

"hiiiiiiii,"

Celene is not very awake at the moment and will just lie there for a while.

Ok, she'll open her eyes now.

Oh right, she's on a different planet. And also in Summer's apartment. What even is going on this is insane.

Celene yawns.

"Good morning."

Summer has been sitting there watching Celene slowly wake up. She is very cute.

"Hey Celene! I'm making pancakes, and then we can head out to get you DNA tested or just look around or whatever. D'you want a coffee or anything?"

Oh no, coffee.

"If my interpretation of the word 'coffee' is correct, I'll pass."

Actually, wait, she was intending on trying out coffee at some point, wasn't she. Wait, she already did that and it was awful. Maybe some other day she will do so once she is confident that she will not be insulting Summer by dumping it out.

She gets off the couch and stretches.

Summer is offended at the idea that she might feel insulted about that.

...Okay fine maybe she'd be, like, a little insulted, but come on she can handle it.

She goes back to making the pancakes.

Celene does not have any of her morning meds, which is going to be problematic eventually. Mostly the withdrawal, to be honest, her regular meds unfortunately had little impact on her. Oh, and also estrogen, that one hurts.

Unfortunately, there is nothing she can do about this.

Pancakes! She does not eat them very often but they are very good. Celene will... lurk and watch Summer make pancakes?

Celene is worried she's gonna have a hard time finding estrogen? You don't need to live in Nucleus for estrogen to be easily accessible.

After a third of a period or so, Summer finishes the pancakes and serves them. They have a couple different types of berries mixed in.

Oh, great! To be honest she is not a huge fan of berries but it'd be kind of rude not to eat them anyways!

...

Wow these are actually not bad, good thing she got over her childhood aversion thing. She's still not going to seek them out of her own initiative, but they definitely aren't bad.

"So I'm going to get my DNA tested today? What's the process like?"

Normally she'd have to make an appointment for these sorts of things but given the circumstances it'd make sense they'd expedite it.

Actually, no, it still doesn't make sense other than the whole "this is another planet" part.