Mayflies and the Ice Queen
"Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time."
- Neil Gaiman (Anansi Boys)
Last night, I dreamed that a plague had come to the town, carried by mayflies with a mosquito-like penetrating probosci. We were trying to build a brick structure to contain them, but all the while we were being stung. Each time a bug attached itself to us, we knew we only had hours to live.
There was another bit much like the Snow Queen where a young boy had trusted the wrong fairy. She seduced him into thinking that she could give him anything, and had frozen him or sucked the life force out of him and he was suspended near death. The other fairies of different colors were thinking who was best to revive him.