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Immediately Riddle is suspicious that this is some kind of set up because really they only have 1 bed that somehow will fit 5 people but not 5 beds for each? Sus.
Anyways there’s no reason to bring this up or time because everyone is arguing where to sleep.
Riddle and Ace can’t be beside each other, they might kill each other in their sleep, and Riddle refuses to sleep by anyone who’s not Trey. Cater is filming the arguments.
It ends up with Riddle in the middle, as he is the smallest and less likely to get up in the middle of the night. He also eats only 800 calories a day and is underweight, so he won’t overheat like everyone else will because the middle is very toasty.
Deuce is to his left, then Ace on the edge. Trey is on the right and Cater on the other side. They all sleep on their backs. Well, try to sleep, since Ace and Deuce keep whispering/kicking each other and Cater is playing on his phone.
Riddle finally snaps at all of them to knock it off and then they go to sleep.
They don’t wake up the same way.
Somehow, Deuce has ended up in the center of the bed under the blanket, curled up around a pillow. Riddle and Ace are cuddling on the left side. Trey is in the same position but skewed a little and Cater is now splayed over him.
Cater snaps 37 pictures of Riddle and Ace and has not moved from laying on Trey.
Leona is not amused but Ruggie is. Jack is embarrassed.
They settle much easier than Heartslabyul did at least, since Leona doesn’t really care as long as he has his ~space~ and Ruggie is used to sharing a bed with others. Jack is a bit nervous but he’ll get over it.
They end with Leona on one side and Jack on the other, Ruggie in the middle. Ruggie lays on his back and the other two face the other direction.
Jack says goodnight and they both mutter it back.
Jack wakes up on the floor with his leg hurting because Ruggie kicks. Hard.
Ruggie has also taken over his spot on the bed, starfish style.
Leona is still somehow undisturbed but he does have more blanket than he started out with.
Ah, how benevolent of Azul to let Jade and Floyd on the bed with him, how kind of him!
Actually it’s more like Jade and Floyd squished Azul between them before he could say he was just going to sleep under the bed, but details, details!
This isn’t really any different from back in the Coral Sea, where merfolks napping in the open would just curl around objects or each other not to float away in the current.
They had often taken quick naps while exploring or in Azul’s octopus pot so the closeness doesn’t bother them at all.
Azul is stuck in the middle, with Jade laying like a corpse on his left and Floyd clinging to him on the right.
Azul hates how good he slept that night.
It’s not that big of a deal to either of them. Kalim often slept in Jamil’s bed when he had bad dreams or his bed got soaked in blood from a would-be assassin, and Jamil sometimes slept in Kalim’s when there was a bug he couldn’t find and kill before bed.
Kalim says it’s a fun sleep over so they have to share the bed! Jamil is too tired to argue.
They settle in back to back and go right to sleep.
They wake up cuddling.
Vil is appalled that such a grievous error could be made but Rook is quick to assure him that it is an honor to sleep beside such a glorious beauty like Vil. Epel wants to go home.
After being forced to endure a beauty routine he always claims he does, Epel finally says that he’s super tired and wants to sleep. Vil agrees, beauty sleep is important.
Rook insists he’s in the middle, which is fine because Epel thinks the temptation to smother Vil in his sleep might be too much to ignore.
They wake up with Rook is clinging to Vil like an octopus and Epel is embarrassingly holding Vil’s hand.
This isn’t a big deal to either of them, as they are brothers.
Also Ortho is a robot who does not need a bed to sleep. Idia is a gamer who does not sleep.
Idia plugs Ortho in and spends the night on his phone playing gacha rhythm games like the loser he is.
Welp, this happened.
Sebek is Offended Horrified someone would make such a grievous error when booking rooms.
Silver is already passed out on the floor, which also makes Sebek yell louder.
Neither Lilia or Malleus care. At all.
Lilia picks up his sleepy son and tucks him into bed before flopping down beside him. Malleus lays beside Lilia.
Sebek then passes out when he realizes the only spot left is beside WAKASAMA.
Lilia also puts him in bed then digs out his game to play. Malleus doesn’t sleep but he does lay down for the whole night because as it turns out Sebek and Silver are cuddlers and it’s nice to be wanted.