None Shall Sleep Novels & Stories

I say rolling my eyes and I look away which makes him chuckle. “Well then, if we have trouble with difficult questions tomorrow, I hope you know, you’re answering them, Ms. Senior.” Myles winks and we all laugh. This guy really knows how to control a crowd. "Alright, everyone, I think it's time we retire for the night. We start at ten o'clock tomorrow, so please get sufficient rest." Sighing, everyone gets up and starts heading to the door and I follow suit. "Atlas?" "Huh?" Turning around, I realize Jon's already gone.

That was the end of his memory. He woke up in an unfamiliar room. It took him a moment to gain clarity, he realized it was already the next day and he was in someone's bedroom. He jolted on the bed, his head felt like it had been crushed by a truck. He looked around, there were at least five naked people lying around, him being one of them. "Fuck!" he stood up, wobbled to find something to wear. He counted seven people in that room, all in the nude. Three men, four women. He was on the bed with two women, Amber Stewart was one of them.

I'm quiet because I actually feel guilty about all of this, I feel like I would have been able to do something. “No, that's not it, mom. I'm not scared of the news, and I will not get any nightmares,” I say and mom smiles. “Goodnight honey!” mom says and I wave, “Goodnight mom,” I say. She flips my light switch off and darkness floods the entire room. I turn off my phone and now I'm in absolute darkness, the kind of darkness where I can't even tell whether I'm lying or standing. After a few seconds of counting sheep, I fade. into my subconscious, gradually.

I say jerking my head towards my bedroom The dog jumps up and heads for my room, her tail between her legs as the wolves sing into the night. I follow the dog, feeling cheated by the wolves. Once in my room I drop my books next to my back and head for bed. Shana jumps onto the end of the bed, a comforting reminder I hadn't lost everyone when Irana had been killed. My mum may have been lost within the sorrow and my dad consumed by anger and pity, but Shana was still here, reassuring me that i wasn't alone

I just let sleep take over .

- Doris, are you asleep? Doris is aware that Wynn is going to continue sleeping since she is well beyond her bedtime and does not feel like interacting with anybody else because she is so exhausted. Riffen was the only person she ever wanted to see again, and she really wanted to have a conversation with him about everything, but it was impossible.

It felt as if we were made to be together. The night my wounds had fully healed, I couldn't sleep. The lamp in my bedroom was still on when Angelo knocked and stepped in with a cup of warm milk. "Can't sleep?" he asked. I patted the space beside me. He sat down and hugged me without hesitation. "Angelo," I said, gathering my courage. "Can we do it?" He understood what I meant, but didn't rush to make a move. "Are you sure? We can take our time."

With no knowledge of which way to go, I hit something hard and I black out. The next thing I know I wake up screaming in my bed, I shiver uncontrollably as the dried sweat makes my hair stick to my head. The sheets tangled at the foot of the bed, but my heart beat is already slowing because I’m at home safe and secure from any of those monsters out there in the woods. It was just a nightmare. In all the 17 years of my life, that would have to be the scariest nightmare I have ever had. I know I can’t go back to sleep after having a nightmare like that, so I get my phone out and check the time, its 2 in the morning I still have 5 hours until I have to get up. What am I going to do? I figure I

POV: Lila (primary), Kehra (glyph-split listening), Maximus (stilled, not still), Elora (re-inked vow), Saela (the second name), Vathil (incipient) Lila I didn’t sleep. Not because the ground shifted again, though it did. Not because the threads returned to my cot, though they did braided now into a shape none of us had ever drawn. I didn’t sleep because Saela stood at the edge of the grove all night and never blinked.

“Rule one: No touching.” Second finger. “Rule two: No feelings.” Third finger. “Rule three: 90 days. Then you leave. Clean.” Lila made a small noise and reached her hand out in her sleep, searching for me. Kael’s eyes tracked that tiny fist. For half a second, the billionaire mask cracked. He looked exhausted. Like a man who hadn’t slept in years. Like a man who lived in a penthouse and still felt empty.