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He looks at his zoo from a small distance, biting his lip, frustrated it was not looking how he wanted it to.

It was late into the night and he’s been working all night.

He lands on the ground, needling down to dig through a shulker to find a different block to try.

Arms snake around his middle and he almost jumps out of his skin in surprise, jumping up.

“ScCcCCaAAaR!” Grain squeals, not letting go of the vex hybrid.

Scar takes a deep breath, “Gri! What the heck!?”

“What are you doing Scar?” Grian asks, arms still around Scar, face squished in his back, wings pulled close.

“What are you doing?” Scar questions, “I’m trying to finish this enclosure of my zoo.”

“I can’t sleep.” Grain mumbles into Scar’s back.

“Oh.” Scar says, understanding in his voice, “Are you having nightmares again?”

Grian nods into Scar’s back, silently answering him.

“Do you want me to sleep with you?” Scar asks, "Would that help?”

Grain nods again.

Scar pries Grian off himself, standing up.

Grian takes his hand, walking towards his base in silence.

They recently get to Grian’s base and the avian takes Scar to his bedroom.

The avian flops down into his nest, wings spread out beneath him, hand up to cover a yawn.

Scar takes off his shoes, going to take off his shirt like he normally would before bed, but decides not to because he feels like Grian would not appreciate that.

Scar lays on his side, looking at the avian who stares up at the ceiling with his dark, almost soulless eyes.

“Can you lay on top of me?” Grian asks, still staring up at the ceiling.

“You sure?”

“It’s like a weighted blanket.” Grian says, “It feels nice.”

Scar moves, slowly laying on top of the avian, carefully, not wanting to crush the smaller man.

“That okay?” Grian closes his eyes, “yes.”

Scar pulls a blanket over them, closing his own eyes because he too is exhausted from the day.

Scar laying on top of Grian acts like a weighted blanket, relaxing the avian.

He does end up having a nightmare that night, but Scar is there, laying on top of him, the added weight helping ground the avian from the panic of his nightmare so he is able to fall back to sleep, sleeping the rest of the night.

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Ren had been blissfully asleep when hands on his body awakened him.

The dog hybrid's eyes fly open, his heart pounding as he tries to figure out who is touching him, his eyes searching around the dark room, glad for his canine-like eyes, making it so he can see in the dark better than a human.

A familiar, distinctly cod-like face hovers above his own.

“Grian!” Ren says, staring up at the avian, “What are you doing in my base!?”

“ ‘Can’t s’eep.” Grain mumbles, looking away with heavy eyes.

“Oh.” Ren says, facial expression softening, “Nightmares again?”

Grain nods.

“You want me to help you sleep.” Ren asks.

The avian nods again, tugging on Ren’s arm, trying to pull him out of his bed.

“Grian, we can just sleep here.” Ren says, chuckling.

“No.” Grain mumbles, “Nest.”

Ren sighs, sitting up and getting out of bed.

The avian does not let his arm go, instead trying to pull him out the bedroom door.

“Can I at least put some pants on?” Ren says, standing there in just a pair of boxers.

Grian’s cheeks turn pink before he nods, letting Ren’s arm go and turning around.

Ren quickly grabs a pair of sweatpants pulling them on, also throwing on a pair of sneakers quickly, “Okay, let’s go.” he says, yawning.

Grian turns around again, grabbing Ren’s arm before dragging the brunet out of his base, towards the avian’s own base.

When they get there, Ren is barely able to kick off his shoes before Grian is done taking his own off, and dragging Ren towards his nest.

Ren’s dragged into Grian’s bedroom and pushed into the nest.

Ren moves, laying down in the middle, his head supported by one of the various pillows in the nest.

Grian crawls into the nest after him, laying on top of his bare chest, chirping softly as he lays his tricoloured wings over to two of them, closing his eyes, his cheek resting against some of the fluffy, brown, dog fur on Ren’s chest.

Ren chuckles, gently running his hand through Grian’s hair as the avian drifts off to sleep.

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Pearl is a moth hybrid. Due to this she is semi-nocturnal. She also has insomnia, so when she does try to sleep most nights, already around midnight to two in the morning, she sometimes has trouble sleeping.

Her adoptive brother Grian also has insomnia, though this is caused by nightmares he has from his time at the watcher’s hands.

Sometimes, when Pearl can’t sleep, the moth hybrid will work on one of her projects.

Tonight, she is sitting in one of her shops, working on her ‘wordle’ game. 

She’s mostly messing around with the redstone, and trying out the game, trying to get it to work again after it broke earlier that week.

She has her head inside the game, hands inside, trying to fix some of the redstone wiring (she’s no Tango Tek, but she has gotten pretty decent at redstone).

The moth hybrid feels someone tap on her shoulder.

She pulls her top half out of her redstone work, wondering who else is up this late at night.

Her blue eyes land on a very tired looking Grian and she instantly knows, “Oh Griba.” she says, standing up, brushing her hands off on her pants, “Can’t sleep?”

He nods, taking her hand, gently pulling her away from her work.

Pearl smiles, knowing he’s dragging her to his base, to his nest so he can sleep.

The moth hybrid lets him, following him outside her shop before the two of them take to the sky, flying towards his base.

When they get there, Grian grabs her wrist again, dragging her inside.

She’s dragged to his nest room, pulled into the mess of blankets, pillows, feathers, and random articles of clothing, Grian calls a nest.

Pearl lays down on her side, pulling her little brother close to her chest, causing him to chirp softly, settling down, falling asleep, safe in his big sister’s arms.

The moth hybrid slowly runs her hands through her brother’s hair, settling down to sleep herself.

She’s up for around an hour after Grian has drifted off, before she finally falls asleep herself at around 3 am.