the sleep of reason
Mayuri has told Nemu, more than once, that dreams are simply the mind's recycling of images during sleep, a mishmash of the day's recollections and speculations compounded into a degree of irrationality that is currently necessary for the brain's functioning. In time he will do better. He will make her better.
Nemu has faith in her father, and so she waits for the night when she can sleep in peace, and when she need no longer fear those long necessary hours of nonfunction, those lengths of silence with her eyes closed; those promises in darkness which the morning always breaks.
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