[h2][center][color=lightpink]Aphrodite[/color] & Eleanor[/center][/h2]
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It wasn't necessity that compelled Eleanor to open her eyes upon waking but trained instinct. Long ago, when still a little girl with a cherub face, she would awaken but keep her eyes closed, for what need did she have to open them? There was no benefit to her so she saw no point in it until her old man had gently scolded her, but the sting was taken out of his words as he ran bony fingers through her curls. 

"You frighten people when you sit up like that." He informed her. "They believe you are still asleep and it confuses them. People are harsh to what they do not understand. They world has not offered much kindness to you but you have nothing but kindness to offer it in return, so please do so by opening your eyes." 

And so Eleanor trained herself to do so, blinking eyelids drowsily as she woke from slumber. She was generally able to tell time of day and location by her other senses - the smell of freshly baked bread signified the beginning of day, the sound of angry businessmen on phones, the faint scent of cigarette smoke meant midday as they rushed to lunch, the tinkling laughter of children generally heralded mid afternoon as they raced home from school. Her eyes were simply open to placate those around her - but today, today she sensed something different. 

"You ... " Eleanor murmured. The world was muted around her. Nothing but different shades of darkness - but, rubbing her eyelids furiously, she blinked. The blob in front of her did not move. "Are you ... are you the little girl from earlier?" A head shot up and suddenly the small bit of darkness, more pronounced than that around it, dropped something onto the ground carelessly and darted towards Eleanor. 

"You can see me!" She squealed, "I thought - I thought your eyes didn't work. Mummy said your eyes didn't work - she's getting us food, she told me to watch you but I got bored so I was drawing, you can draw with a rock and works just as good as chalk, Mummy says it looks just as good as all the other kids' drawings and we don't even have to pay for the rocks like you have to pay for chalk, they're just lying around - "

"My eyes don't work." Eleanor interrupted dumbly. She wasn't lying when she said she'd never needed them to, either. So why - why now? Exactly what kind of deep slumber did she go into?

And then suddenly, just as she had been able to see different shades of darkness, she blinked and nothingness filled her vision again. 

It was almost disconcerting, to feel vision. Eleanor wasn't sure she liked it and was almost comforted when it went away of its own volition.[i] A fluke.[/i] The woman mused hopefully. [i]From being asleep for so long. It - it must've messed with my head somehow.[/i]

"Where is your mother? I'm hungry."