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He was in luck on both counts.

Without regular doses of melatonin his lover’s sleep patterns slowly drifted until he started falling asleep during the day and stayed awake at night. Colin had read something about how totally blind people with no light perception often had trouble maintaining their sleep patterns and how many had found melatonin helpful.

Unfortunately the stuff wasn’t available over the counter and their doctor wasn’t willing to prescribe it, so they’d found a supplier online. But Martin—unusually for him—had forgotten to bring his pills with him, and consequently, because of the jet-lag, he wasn’t sleeping at the right times. Heck, neither was Colin.