The Nightmares She Doesn't Have Pt 2.
May. 17th, 2006 08:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twiststhebladeMiho doesn't have nightmares. She doesn't. She doesn't wake up wide eyed and frozen in the small hours of the morning, muscles aching, jaw clenched against a scream.
If she did have nightmares, which she doesn't, she would tell you she doesn't know why. There can't be any reason for them. Nothing to cause the stifling weight she sometimes feels still upon her when she wakes. No reason to choke in her sleep and wake coughing and gagging.
If she spends half of the night sitting on her windowsill, chain-smoking and staring out at the lake, perhaps she's just not tired. Maybe she likes the view better when it's dark and empty. If there is a bottle of bourbon in her bedside cabinet, if when she's alone she takes a drink to send herself to sleep, why not? Nothing wrong with a night-cap, is there?
She doesn't have nightmares, though. No-one could say she does. No-one has ever heard her cry out, noticed the salty dampness on her pillow, seen her wake with a start and a gasp.
She doesn't have nightmares.
Unless she's alone.
If she did have nightmares, which she doesn't, she would tell you she doesn't know why. There can't be any reason for them. Nothing to cause the stifling weight she sometimes feels still upon her when she wakes. No reason to choke in her sleep and wake coughing and gagging.
If she spends half of the night sitting on her windowsill, chain-smoking and staring out at the lake, perhaps she's just not tired. Maybe she likes the view better when it's dark and empty. If there is a bottle of bourbon in her bedside cabinet, if when she's alone she takes a drink to send herself to sleep, why not? Nothing wrong with a night-cap, is there?
She doesn't have nightmares, though. No-one could say she does. No-one has ever heard her cry out, noticed the salty dampness on her pillow, seen her wake with a start and a gasp.
She doesn't have nightmares.
Unless she's alone.
