"Hey… wake up."
Poke. Poke.
"Simma, wake up."
Slowly, his eyes fluttered open. At first, the world was blurred, but then it cleared into the image of delicate hands tucking him upright, and finally, two brilliant green eyes were hovering just above him. They glimmered with a smile, one that tugged at something buried deep in his memory, as if it had always been waiting there at the back of his mind.
He blinked hard and sat up with the help of the one who had woken him; Naya.
His gaze lingered on her face longer than it should. The look he threw at her was the kind that always betrayed guilty conscience, like a thief pretending innocence while standing in front of the treasure he once stole.
"Are you okay?" Naya asked gently, studying him. She had caught the strange way his gaze lingered on her.
Simma quickly looked away, springing to his feet. He did his best to hide the red flush spreading across his cheeks, filled with; part guilt, part shyness.