Pretending to Sleep

Pretending to Sleep

She never sleeps, from what they are told. Never a nap in the afternoon nor forty wink of shut-eye for five minutes. Nobody knows how she does it, but there are rumors that the Sleep Fairy took away her ability to slumber. These days, she only pretends to sleep, so that her friends and family will not worry. What she really does, when everyone else in the house is unconscious, is play video games and study nonsensical things.

She has all the time in the world now, 24-hours, really.

Whenever she pretends to sleep, she always keeps the right eye open and the left eye closed. She blinks slowly as she pretends-sleep, secretly listening in on conversations about her and her eternal insomnia. But she never complains about the lack of sleep. In fact, she says she is ecstatic. She has infinite energy, can run around at night (she could never do that, she'd be asleep), and can late-cram study for a test the following days. 

Her all-nighters are amazing.  

There is one thing she regrets though. Something she misses terribly. She can never dream.

(But on the bright side, she can daydream, but it's not really the same.)

Near the Lake, Is a Muse.

Painting by AK

Near the Lake, Is a Muse

There is a muse near the unnamed lake. Nobody knows for certain, however. They just assume so because of the creative ideas they obtain just by being there. Regardless, most have named her Mimsy, even though her true name is something indistinguishable to mortals.

There is one particular mortal who she likes, always making sure that he receives his daily dose of muses. But only because that he depicts her the way she is, and not the way that others do, overly changing her structure, drawing her in a conflict between a dragon and an ogre.

Ironically, she is friends with a dragon and ogre.