#dreamcatching

Today's featured fic is "Dreamcatching" by Slurpi13

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Although no stranger to a frivolous indulgence, Aziraphale could never quite master the ability to sleep.

It was not due to a lack of earnest attempts over the millennia. All the correct rituals the angel read about were performed. There had been the alcoholic nightcap, the warm milk nightcap, as well as an actual nightcap situated atop his blond curls. He still had the latter, shoved in the back of his wardrobe with a matching pair of cornflower blue pajamas he’d had tailored for the occasion. Counting sheep he’d found rather dull—though not dull enough to incite drowsiness—but a good book had the opposite effect. Before he knew it, he would greet the sunrise still bright eyed, snug under the sheets, and lost inside his story.

If Aziraphale attempted with no sheep and no book, determined in his efforts, his mind would wander endlessly while sleep remained elusive. With his thoughts dallying in silliness and straying into forbidden territories, he would quickly remember why idle hands and minds were the playthings of the devil. Only once had the angel managed to drift into a lighter state of awareness, his thoughts becoming disjointed, but, too excited by his progress, he promptly woke himself back up.

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