Leonardo lurched awake when a hand slapped his shoulder. “Good afternoon, great leader. Better get up fast or Sensei’s gonna have a shell to pick with you.”
It always made Leo uncomfortable for his waking emotion to be confusion. He stared up at his smirking brother, Raphael, asking, “What? Afternoon?” Disoriented, Leo glanced at the clock by his bedside and gasped, “I overslept!”
“Yeh, like I said, you better get up,” Raph repeated, laughing as Leo scrambled out of his bed and reached for the blue mask he had hung on the wall the night before. Raph’s sneer faltered just slightly