Ilyana (caisson) wrote in thedarkera, @ 2015-04-24 13:03:00 |
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Entry tags: | z-bleeding heart |
Dantalion & Sadie
Sadie had a terribly complicated relationship with sleep. Between her herbal medications and the demon within her, she bounced between bouts of insomnia and sleeping an entire day away; between the dreamless sleep of the dead and lucid dreaming; between restful slumber and restless nights.
The special mixture of herbs in her tea that night would put both Sadie and her passenger out of commission. The Lady's Slipper Orchid saw to Hili, blocking him out as if he hadn't existed in the first place. The Valerian root and chamomile saw to Sadie, drawing her eyelids closed during fluttering attempts at finishing a paragraph in the book she was trying and failing to read in bed.
When it fell from her hands and hit the floor with a quiet thud, Sadie almost didn't wake. She reached out to turn the key of the night stand oil lamp, plunging her bedroom into darkness. What if a poor soul came calling for medical assistance? She worried about such things every time she medicated herself to sleep. Soon she was at the back door in her night gown and braided hair, peering out the small window as if the fog would allow her to see. There was a knocking all the same, the familiar rapping of a dashing criminal who never visited without some blood loss involved. There was no one there when she opened the door to the milky cloud of a wall. Tendrils of the fog snaked in from the rush of air. Her blood ran cold. She shut the door, all worries forgotten at the sight of her bathtub filled with steaming water, loose lavender buds, rose petals and for some reason, loose tea.
Clearly she hadn't woken after all.
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