Catching a Nightmare: Fantasy

[penthius]

She caught the nightmare with a carefully baited trap: her little sister after she kept her up really late watching Halloween with her. It worked, and it was totally worth it, even if it did make her mother ground her for a month. And her little sister's constant nightmares for the next week gave her something to feed the nightmare colt with while she worked on taming it. She hadn't been exactly sure how she could go ahead with bridling such a creature, but it turned out that weaving together strands of dream catchers worked like, well, a charm! And then she learned how to feed the animal--not with her own dreams, since she never had nightmares, and hadn't since she was super-small--but by walking it around the town at 2 a.m. If there was nothing, she'd lurk outside a kid's bedroom window and play the tape of Halloween sounds she'd unearthed from the attic.

Inspiration: The nightmare beast in Phil's Dark Sun one-shot.
Story Potential: High.
Notes: I like the idea that this could turn her into something mythic, and not exactly on the good side of good vs. evil, but not really evil either.