Catching a nap.
I had a day or two of sluggishness and the plot went nowhere. But that's normal for NaNo, and it usually hits me sometime around the half way mark. So I'm not really surprised. Interestingly it's usually around the 28k word mark, and happens at other times of the year too. I have a file full of projects that stalled around 27-30k words.
Snippet below… Enjoy!
Sage sprawled face down on the narrow bed with one arm hanging limply over the side. Her boots sat on the floor beside the bed and her jacket was thrown untidily on the end of the bed frame. The door of the room was closed and the only sound was the steady hiss of air conditioning and the rasp of Sage's breathing as she slept.
The door eased quietly open and he walked in, making no noise as he left the door slightly ajar. He was in a green standard issue t-shirt with a name tape that declared him to be Dr Smith, crumpled, but once crisply neat, trousers and soft shoes. Clean shaven, as were all personnel at the Hangar for various reasons, he had a tight lipped mouth between a chin that would have benefited from a beard and a slightly upturned nose that sat below nervous eyes that were stormy grey with hints of blue. He wore no watch and his hands had that over clean soft pinkness that doctors get from constant hand washing and held in one hand was a small device. It was twice as long as his hand with a square box at one end and there was a tapering rod projecting a couple of inches from it.
He stood by the bed, with Sage facing away from him and held the rod end just millimetres from her right ear. The top face of the box part lit up and he shaded it with his hand so it didn't shine onto her face and wake her. His gaze flicked from the screen on the box to Sage's sleeping form and back again, back and forth until part of the screen shone blue and then green and he nodded to himself and left as quietly as he came.
"Well?"
He turned at the door to see Sage's head lifted from the pillow, obviously not as deeply asleep as he'd thought.
He smiled and it changed his face. "Sorry, I didn't want to wake you. The readings are all well in the green. It's fine but you should get it checked more regularly."
Sage nodded noncommittally. "What time is it?"
