Nuala

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Nuala is a character in the comic book series The Sandman, by Neil Gaiman.

Nuala was a faerie gift to the Lord Morpheus. She was beautiful initially, but Morpheus, being simplistic, took her faerie glamour away, leaving a thin, brown haired pixie instead of a beautiful blonde faerie woman. From then on she took on the housekeeping duties of The Dreaming, only stopping when her brother Cluracan brought her back to Faerie in The Kindly Ones. Before she left, Morpheus granted her a boon, which was that she could call on him if she needed to, in exchange for her years of servitude. Nuala had been nursing a crush on Morpheus for some time, so she finally called him, and though he did not return her love and two of the most memorable lines in The Kindly Ones were exchanged between them:

Morpheus: I could send you a dream of my love.
Nuala: I already have that, my lord.