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He had been watching television in the living room.

Around eleven-thirty in the morning, Crescent woke up and went downstairs to find him sitting alone on the sofa. She went straight over and sat on his lap as bold as ever.

"You didn't sleep?"

"Nope." The nomad wrapped his arm around her waist and kissed her cheek. "You're not sleeping?"

"Right."

Smelling the fragrance of shampoo on her hair