My last nightmare was a bad one, I don't know if it was the worst, but it must be pretty close. I usually end up venting my sorrows to Asami after a nightmare, but this night came with a surprise. I've been living with Asami for a few years now and she still amazes me each and every day. I wish we could be together forever, so I may have to hurry up and finish crafting her ring to make it happen. Just thinking of it makes my heart jump.

"Sleep my baby on my bosom
Warm and cozy will it prove
Round your mother's arms are folding
In her heart a mother's love

There shall no one come to harm you
Naught shall ever break your rest
Sleep my darling babe in quiet
Sleep on mother's gentle breast."

Since Asami sang to me that first time, I've always liked placing my head on top of her chest. Sometimes, after a nightmare, I feel that I'm going to fall apart, that I'm going to be broken again. This fear is unfounded, but still… When I feel Asami humming the lullaby before actually singing it, when I hear her heartbeat… Both of these things wash my fears away and bring me peace.

"Sleep serenely, baby, slumber
Lovely baby, gently sleep;
Tell me wherefore are you smiling
Smiling sweetly in your sleep?

Do the spirits smile in heaven
When your happy smile they see?
Do you on them smile while slumb'ring
On my bosom peacefully."

Asami has talked about her mother before, but I have never asked her too many things, afraid to overstep some kind of line, but now I see that I need to ask her, to keep her mother alive in her memory. Though hearing Asami singing, I realize that her mother was a very strong woman, stronger than I first thought. And Asami is just like her. With her singing she's keeping my fears away, and just now I realize what her voice carries with each word she sings. I feel a little dumb for not becoming aware of it earlier.

"Do not fear the sound of a breeze
Brushing leaves against the door.
Do not dread the murmuring seas,
Lonely waves washing the shore.

Sleep child mine, there's nothing here,
While in slumber at my breast,
Spirits smiling, have no fear,
Holy spirits guard your rest."

It's funny that while I'm falling asleep, my heart is jumping from joy. And there's a stupid smile on my face I can't get rid of. I'm so silly, what I've been hearing in Asami's voice every time she sings is love.


A/N: The song is a real one called "Sleep my baby", adapted —not by me— from a Welsh lullaby called "Suo Gân". I made minor adjustments to remove the archaic use of English and also replaced "angels" by "spirits". The only word I couldn't change was "heaven", which doesn't have an equivalent in the Avatar-verse. Thank you for reading.