The Dream Nest Suite

Elyra, who was the founder of the Blue Bells Inn, had The Dream Nest suite decorated in honour of her father King Apple Core’s sister Andvaka.

Andvaka was a very restless fairy, she never slept, and her greatest desire was to get just one night of sleep. Elyra asked Andvaka to help decorate one of the suites, in the hope that Andvaka would get tired enough to go to sleep.

Andvaka searched the world for ways to go to sleep, she even vent to the end of the world to get some of the One Eyed Flowers as decoration for the walls of the suite. The one eyed flowers are said to be the best guards in the world, they will stay awake no matter what, and keep nightmares away.

A mermaid gave Andvaka a fish to help her to fall a sleep. She told Andvaka to count how many times the fish swam around in circles, and a story teller from the human world, gave her eight books of good night stories to read before she went to bed. All the books are still placed on the table in the suite.

On one of Andvaka’s travels to find rest, she had a statuette from a giant woman, she by accident stepped on, while she was taking a nap. As Andvaka set her tiny foot on her nose she sneezed. Andvaka was blown half the way to the moon, and when she landed again, the giant woman had started to cook her dinner. Andvaka landed on the giant woman’s right hand, and gave her a bag of herbs, that could stop her from sneezing. The Giant had no idea that Andvaka had been blown half the way to the moon from her sneezing, but she wasn’t used to being treated kindly, and she gladly accepted the gift. She invited Andvaka to have dinner with her. Andvaka told the giant about her sleeping problem, and how she had traveled the world to find rest. The giant woman felt so sorry for Andvaka, that she asked her to wait, while she went to the other side of the world, to get a gift that could help her fall asleep. Andvaka was so desperate to go to sleep, that she agreed to wait. The giant woman soon returned with a statuette that looked like a dancing giant with wings. The statuette was holding a sparkling star, and if it was turned upside down, it could play a lullaby. The giant explained that giant babies are very difficult to get to fall asleep, so most giant mothers, have lullaby statuette carved for their children. The giant mother spend one day singing lullabies to the statuette, and because a giant’s singing is so loud, the statuette will never forget the sound, and it will keep on repeating it forever. Andvaka took the statuette back home, but the lullaby did not put her to sleep.

Andvaka was so tired that she turned down all the handsome fairy knights, who proposed to her, one of them even send her a sleeping chair, that was so soft that not even the most stubborn Bull Frog, (the only animal in the world that never sleeps), could help falling asleep in the chair. Andvaka tried the chair, but she just sat there with her good night stories still not able to fall asleep. Andvaka placed the big green chair in the Dream Nest Suite, so that Elyra’s guests could try it in case they couldn’t fall asleep. Another fairy knight gave her a dream catcher to hang over her bed, to catch her nightmares, and another gave her a candle that never would go out, but Andvaka still couldn’t sleep.

One night a black bird came into the suite through a window, while Andvaka was working on the decorations. Andvaka saw that it had a broken wing, and she gave the bird a healing kiss on the wing. For the first time Andvaka felt a little sleepy, and she started to yawn. The bird asked her to keep the windows open for the night. The bird shook its tail until it had created a soft rug of feathers, and asked Andvaka to lie down on the rug to get some rest. The bird told her, that if she could lie on the rug, and stay awake for the rest of the night, she would get a reward the following night. Then it took of through the window. It was the first time Andvaka had a hard time staying awake; the rug felt so soft, that when she closed her eyes, she felt like a dream was coming to her. She started to think of all the tings she had to do in the morning, but she got more, and more tired as she waited for the morning to come. In the moment the first sunlight came through the window she felt asleep. She didn’t wake up until the sunset. When she opened her eyes the bird came though the window, and landed on the rug. This time Andvaka could see that the bird had a broken leg. She sat down on the rug, and gave the bird jet a healing kiss. Now the bird shook its wings, and created a nest from small branches it shook out its feathers. Andvaka was still sleepy, but she wanted to know if she had stayed awake long enough to get her reward. The nest is your reward the bird said! Lie in the nest for one night with out going to sleep, and I will give you an even better reward to morrow night, the bird said, and took of. Andvaka jumped into the nest. She felt so drowsy that she had to pinch her arm to stay awake. As the first sunlight came through the window she felt asleep, and like the day before she slept until the sunset. The bird came as the night before, and landed on the nest. This time the bird hadn’t broken any thing. Andvaka was so happy that she finely had been able to go to sleep, that she just felt like kissing the bird anyway, so she gave it a kiss on the cheek. The bird started to shake, and it shook until it had no more feathers, and turned into a beautiful fairy knight with shiny black hair. The knight bowed for her, and thanked her for healing his broken heart; he kneeled at her feet, and asked her to be his wife. Andvaka gladly accepted, and from that night on she slept at the chest of her beloved husband, to make sure he never would get a broken heart again, and Andvaka never had any problems falling asleep, she slept every night for the rest of her life!

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