Normally, this might not be such a bad thing. After all, he has a bad tendency to overwork himself, so getting any sleep at all is a victory for those who try to keep him in check. Of course, the count of those has been gradually increasing, here on the turtle; no one else who knows how to manage him, or that he needs to be managed, is here. Most days he's grateful for it.
Sleeping is a good thing, especially when he can push himself far beyond sane limits. However, he's asleep in the middle of the day, and over drawing up numbers and ideas for how to get the hospital established as quickly and efficiently as possible. Long experience of what he didn't do suggests that maybe if he has this before talking to the Emperor, he'll get what he wants.
(The bitterness accompanying that thought is mostly for what his father never did--but only mostly.)
The pen is even still in his hand--he seems to have just dozed off without even noticing. What's more, looking closely--really closely, the kind that can't be seen across the room, might reveal he's not sleeping easily: breathing's a little uneven, and from the way something around his eyes are flickering... it looks rather as if he's seeing something on the back of his eyelids, something that has him restive.
Kyle Rayner, Nov 12
Normally, this might not be such a bad thing. After all, he has a bad tendency to overwork himself, so getting any sleep at all is a victory for those who try to keep him in check. Of course, the count of those has been gradually increasing, here on the turtle; no one else who knows how to manage him, or that he needs to be managed, is here. Most days he's grateful for it.
Sleeping is a good thing, especially when he can push himself far beyond sane limits. However, he's asleep in the middle of the day, and over drawing up numbers and ideas for how to get the hospital established as quickly and efficiently as possible. Long experience of what he didn't do suggests that maybe if he has this before talking to the Emperor, he'll get what he wants.
(The bitterness accompanying that thought is mostly for what his father never did--but only mostly.)
The pen is even still in his hand--he seems to have just dozed off without even noticing. What's more, looking closely--really closely, the kind that can't be seen across the room, might reveal he's not sleeping easily: breathing's a little uneven, and from the way something around his eyes are flickering... it looks rather as if he's seeing something on the back of his eyelids, something that has him restive.