Sleeping Liability

Once upon time a there was a young preteen named Aurora who enjoyed her sleep, so much her unusual habits baffled everyone. Days on days she could be caught sleeping in corridors, pantries and even laboratories! One day she feel into a deep sleep that seemed unwakeable for two weeks and no doctor across the lay of the land could understand why. Which made her father understandably irate. Unfortunately for the townspeople the irate parent was their king. Taxes were raised, lands were reclaimed and travels outside the kingdom were banned, making the living conditions unbearable. In secret the townspeople sought out to put an end to this problem by giving the king a solution, or in other words a scapegoat. There was an eerie old woman who lived alone in the darkest corner of the kingdom’s territory and had the reputation of “exercising dark magic.” This was the perfect way to ease their living conditions. One day a large group of citizens ran into the kingdom in anguish, screaming about how their children had all been cast under a sleeping spell the same one that the king’s daughter had been placed under. The king immediately seized the old woman and order her to a trial by fire. She begged and pleaded for her life but none would believe that she wasn’t a witch who had done these heinous crimes and just an abnormal old lady. On the brink of life or death she channeled her inner Tituba and screamed how burning her wouldn’t lifted the curse she placed on all the children in the land. She said a false incantation and claimed that with a kiss from a prince all the children would go back to normal. The king tested all the suitors across the country to kiss his daughter and none could awaken her. Ready to kill the elderly woman he had thrown into the dungeon a suitor from the woods emerged and with his tender kiss she simultaneously awoke. In fact all of the “cursed children” went back to playing and running around rampant (by the advisory of their parents). The elderly woman punishment was reduced to being banned from the land and the townspeople lives went back to normal. Little did the midcentury people understand the precious daughter had Kleine-Levin syndrome a rare sleep disorder that can make people sleep for long hours, days and even months. Thankfully for the townspeople and old ladies all over the nation she never feel asleep long enough to what could be blamed on a sleeping curse again.