Fifth Floor Common Room, Thursday Evening

[intraspective]

Ino was cooking.

Which she didn't do often, admittedly, but she wasn't bad at. It just wasn't all that fun for her. And, alright, it was a pretty basic meal of fried chicken and rice, but that was a lot more effort than she usually put into it and Ino knew it was mostly because she was rather bored and hoping vaguely that food would draw people out.

It was really weird, how everyone ever was, like, so sleepy. Because, seriously, she was just the same as usual. Weird. Ino flicked the TV on, setting it to a music channel, and sang along snatches of lyrics as she chopped up vegetables.

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[longislandiceme]

Food drew at least one non-sleepy person out!

"Hey... Ino, right?" Bobby ran a hand through his hair as he recalled her name.

[intraspective]

Ino glanced over her shoulder and grinned. "You got it," she said, "and you hungry?"

[longislandiceme]

"See, normally I'd reply with 'No, I'm Bobby', but then you might withhold food and as a teenage boy I don't think I could stand the trauma," Bobby informed her. "Which is really just a long-winded way of saying 'yes'."

[intraspective]

She laughed.

"Would I do something like withhold food?" Ino asked lightly. Yes, yes she would. "Just over a name? Grab a plate."

[longislandiceme]

"One of these days I'll have to figure out this whole cooking thing, I guess," Bobby said, doing as ordered.

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

Hurley shuffled into the common room, a big cup of coffee in one hand.

"Hey Ino," he said.

[intraspective]

"Hiii Hurley!" Ino said, back to him as she checked the chicken. "How're you?"

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"I need to stop dozing off," Hurley said. "I have no idea what is going on, but it sucks."

[intraspective]

She peeked over her shoulder at him. "I'd say it just means you need more sleep, but then radio says that half the town needs more sleep if that's the case. What's up with the sleeping stuff? It hasn't gotten me at all."

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Dude, every time I doze off, I get weird dreams," Hurley said. "Earlier, I thought, like... Reno was a ghost. That was odd."

He wasn't going to mention the sex dream.

[stylin-wizard.livejournal.com]

Alex had wandered upstairs in search of people. And hey, she found some on the fifth floor!

"Hey," Alex offered, upon entering the common room.

[intraspective]

"Hey!" Ino said, smiling. "Nice to see not everyone is asleep!"

[stylin-wizard.livejournal.com]

"My thoughts exactly," Alex admitted, returning the smile. "I'm guessing you haven't been falling asleep randomly either?"

Sure, Alex liked to take naps as much as anyone but from what she'd heard on radio, it was far from normal.

[intraspective]

She shook her head.

"I haven't had anything like that happen to me, you know? And it's a bit crazy, hearing it all over the radio, 'cause then you can't even say things like 'oh, well maybe so and so is just sort of tired' or anything." Ino stretched. "But it's good to see I'm not the only one. My sleep is just like it normally is."

[stylin-wizard.livejournal.com]

"Don't get me wrong, I love to sleep as much as possible, but not like that," Alex admitted, frowning slightly. "Hopefully someone will figure out what's going on."

Thankfully, no one had been hurt by what was going on. Not yet, anyway.

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

Triela wasn't especially hungry. But she wasn't sleeping all that well either. As usual someone had managed to find her stash of tea on the fourth floor so she trudged up a flight of stairs to scour the fifth floor for something decent.

Despite the weird sleeping patterns she'd been suffering from recently, she only looked a little bit out of sorts.

[intraspective]

"Hey Triela," Ino said, cheerfully enough and then--"Whoa, something bugging you?"

A little out of sorts was odd when it came to Triela, yes.

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

"Someone took my tea." Yeah that was totally it. "Do you guys have anything decent up here?"

[intraspective]

"We've got a pretty good green tea, or honey lemon for sure," Ino said, since she drank those ones. "I'm not sure what you drink normally though."

She didn't believe that was it, but Ino was willing to roll with it for now.

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

"Green's fine," Triela decided, covering a yawn with one hand.

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

"Is anyone else kind of weirded out by people randomly falling asleep everywhere?" Helen asked.

[intraspective]

"Severely," Ino said, nodding. "It's totally creepy, geez. It's not even, like, one or two people--it's half the island."

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

"And they all seem to be having weird bad dreams," Helen said, feeling a little relieved that she wasn't the only one bothered by it all.

[intraspective]

"Do they?" Ino said, looking a bit worried. "Hurley said that he had one, but he's only one person so I was hoping it wasn't, you know, more than that."

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

Helen shrugged. "Just seems like they're not good, you know?"