While She Slept

~Kaelen~

She fell asleep at four AM.

I watched it happen from across the server room. One moment she was reading the final sweep report; the next, her head dropped slightly and her breathing changed, and she was gone — the deep, immediate sleep of someone who had been running on nothing for two days and had finally run out of road.

I did not wake her.

I turned back to my screen and kept working an