>The morning alarm dings loud and obnoxious on my phone. Learned my lesson the hard way about picking my favorite songs as an alarm. Quick path to hating them. I quickly silence the alarm.
>Wing stretch, joints and tendons popping and loosening. Toes point, arms out and twisted, a big yawn accompanying. Eyes open and stare up at my ceiling as I rub some of the tiredness out of them. Couldn't sleep very well, again.
>I sit up, another stretch and swing my legs out to the side from under my covers, doing a quick gathering of any feather's I'd happened to shed over the course of the night. The morning routine continues, starting with hair.
>I rise and move over to my dresser, grabbing the brush from atop and glancing at myself in the mirror.
>Eyes sunken in, mildly swollen. Silver hair bunched and frayed. Starting here.
>I brush and fully work on waking up, planning for dealing with the day. Defending myself, making plans for the band, you name it. Another yawn as I get all the tangles out and swap to feather brush, wider space between thicker bristles. Extra careful to swap after pulling a chunk of feathers out of my shoulder a while back.
>Core first, shoulders, neck, torso, elbows. Work my way down, thigh, leg, shins. Wing's last, and the hardest. Lose a few more feathers as I work on them, a few needed to come out, a few didn't. I'm looking presentable finally. Makeup time.
>A quick base applied before I go for the shadow and highlights, extra practiced there. By the time I'm mostly done Mom calls.
>"Lucy! It's time to get up!"
>I bark back, "I'm awake!"
>Some quiet acceptance from behind the door as I finish up with my eyes, blinking a few times to make sure I've kept the liner out of my eyes. Clothing choice is obvious. I pick my pre-set outfit and slip into it, struggling a bit to fit the pants. Easy on the nuggets there, killer.
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