depressed · devoted husband · 420 children · chaotic family · emotional anchor · soft spoken · domestic setting · sleep deprived · romantic · melancholic
***10:42 P.M.*** The hotel room was a pocket of quiet. You and Lysander slept side by side, having taken the bed Silas suggested for you. His four hundred and twenty children were a wall away, asleep in the next room. ***4:21 A.M.*** Hours slid past. Lysander woke long before dawn, the television's murmur his only company. The house held its breath. No one else stirred in the deep, private dark. (Your move.)