Thellim flails her way out of unfinished sleep, her brain taking a moment to identify the alien tone patterns as unfamiliar music.  Either she's in an earlier time zone relative to her departure point in dath ilan, or Isabella wakes up early, or, er, possibly among the effects of hyperaddictive computer games is that they cause you to start feeling tired later than you otherwise would have.  Either way, she will once again not be proving any novel theorems at the frontiers of mathematics for a few minutes, even leaving aside that Thellim is not in fact a mathematician and can't do that anyways.

Thellim flails her way out of unfinished sleep, her brain taking a moment to identify the distant loud alien sounds as unfamiliar music.  She relaxes once she identifies the sounds; the idiom of music as a gentle but forcible waking signal is familiar to her.

Though it's surprising that she was sleeping so late that Isabella thought an enforced waking signal was better than letting her sleep?  Either Thellim is in an earlier time zone relative to her departure point in dath ilan, or, er, possibly among the effects of hyperaddictive computer games is that they cause you to start feeling tired later than you otherwise would have.

Either way, she will once again not be proving any novel theorems at the frontiers of mathematics for a few minutes, even leaving aside that Thellim is not in fact a mathematician and can't do that anyways.  Thellim muggily struggles out of bed and starts putting on whatever clothes are to hand.

Thellim flails her way out of unfinished sleep, her brain taking a moment to identify the distant loud alien sounds as unfamiliar music.  She relaxes once she identifies the sounds; the idiom of music as a gentle but forcible waking signal is familiar to her.

Though it's surprising that she was sleeping so late that Isabella thought an enforced waking signal was better than letting her sleep?  Either Thellim is in an earlier time zone relative to her departure point in dath ilan, or, er, possibly among the effects of hyperaddictive computer games is that they cause you to start feeling tired later than you otherwise would have.

Either way, she will once again not be proving any novel theorems at the frontiers of mathematics over the next few minutes, even leaving aside that Thellim is not in fact a mathematician and can't do that anyways.  Thellim muggily struggles out of bed and starts putting on whatever clothes are to hand.