I am the passenger

The term "sleep walking" implies both sleeping and walking, neither of which Nadia was doing, so it shouldn't really have applied.

The fact that she'd had another restless night of bizarro dreams and had thus been up since 4 AM meant that the term "awake" couldn't really apply to her, either.

She had been sitting up on the couch in the common room, wrapped in her blanket, and watching TV for a few hours now, and had come to the conclusion that Bitterwoman would have been much less bitter if she were allowed to wear pants, that AKA's writers had to be on the good drugs, and that rabbits and ducks were natural enemies, but they really, really should have teamed up against that hunter instead of arguing with each other.

She's currently watching a rather bizarre show for toddlers involving giant, brightly colored creatures that danced around and repeated things to the point of causing them to lose all meaning, and possibly discovering the meaning of life through their antics.

Somewhere in the back of her head she realizes she should probably go to her classes today, but she'll worry about that, later.

The walk from the third floor common room to her dorm room on the fifth floor took approximately seven years, and involved a lot of thrilling adventures, new found friends and enemies, talking animals, fantastic creatures, literary allusions, metaphors for common place rites of passage, and three comings of age.

Well, no, actually it took approximately five minutes and involved a lot of leaning against the wall and limping. But it sounds much more exciting the other way.

Whatever it involved, it did, eventually, come to an end as Nadia flopped over onto her bed and went to sleep. ( And dreamed. )

She woke up screaming, gasping for breath, and clutching Furrball in the air in front of her.

Furrball licked her nose again. "Mew."

She lay back down with a groan. She had to talk to someone about these dreams.

[ooc: yes. I do have too much fun with dream imagery. What of it? If anyone has a burning desire to talk to Nadia, they are welcome to do so here.]