I was trying to figure out how to stop your snoring.

[ Sniping back at Mal is as natural as breathing. Then, more seriously: ]

I couldn't sleep.

[ A childish nightmare might have been easier to deal with, something to explain rather than the tumultuous and ugly thoughts that burned in her brains. ]

I thought it would help just to lay next to you, like when we were younger.

[ Alina chews on the edge of her thumbnail, watching him. She knows him well enough to see that he's hiding... something in his expression. He must feel awkward about her curling into him, she decides. It was her mistake for pushing, looking for something where there wasn't anything to be found. ]