Yu Sheng was awakened at dawn by a headbutt from the little Puppet.
He instantly opened his eyes and sat up, just to see Erin nearby, with her head pressed against his pillow. Despite having just headbutted him, the little thing hadn't opened her eyes and, after a few random movements, had fallen into a deep sleep again, her snores small and even.
Yu Sheng, however, couldn't fall back asleep.
He sat on the bed in a daze for a while, leaned back against the pillow, and his mind still lingered with the faint impressions from the dream before being woken by Erin's headbutt. He felt he'd been dreaming all night about a jumble of bizarre dreams, with all sorts of strange scenes cycling through his mind like a slideshow, and even now, they hadn't completely faded away —