The Most Bizarre Dream I Ever Had (And Why It Ended Up in My Book)

Every scene in The Nixian Chronicles has a purpose.
Some are dark, sacred, emotionally raw.
Others… are born from the most unhinged dreams I’ve ever had.

Like this one.

It started with a reality TV show.

In the dream, I was watching a show about Mrs. Claus.
She had taken a break from the North Pole while Santa prepped for his gift run.
And instead of elves and reindeer… the next scene opened on a yacht.
A lavish boat party.
Music, lights, magical beings everywhere.

And there she was.
Mrs. Claus.
Flirting with a half-goat, half-man creature who clearly had history with her.

They were laughing.
Glancing.
And then suddenly… they were at the bow of the ship.
(Yes, the same spot where Rose and Jack had their famous moment in Titanic.)

Except this wasn’t a romantic pose.
This was full-on, uncensored, mythologically-inappropriate goat-man passion.

It was as hilarious as it was disturbing.

Dream-me was narrating it all to my husband, laughing and saying:

"Oooohhh, you will not believe what Mrs. Claus just did.
She is definitely on the naughty list."

Then came the twist—because of course there was a twist.

The party ended.
But the goat-man?
He had fallen in love.

And the drama? Only just beginning.

I woke up somewhere between horror and amusement.

And somehow… that moment found its way into The Nixian Chronicles: The Awakening.

It’s the memory Lyara recalls when she considers the danger of telepathically entering someone else’s mind.
A memory of her younger self, haunted by a dream about Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus…
and the most unholy hybrid situation imaginable.

Because even in a story drenched in myth, trauma, and prophecy—
humor has a place.

That’s what I want readers to know:
Nothing in this book is random.
Every detail—no matter how strange—was chosen with purpose.

Sometimes, the purpose is to explore the weight of free will.
Other times… it’s to remind you:

The mind is wild.
And magic doesn’t always show up dressed in shadow and glory.
Sometimes it shows up laughing.

This part of the story is a reminder to embrace it all.
The good. The bad. The serious. The funny.
The weird. And yes… even the unhinged.

Because your mind?
It makes you magic.
My fantasy stories follow magical beings—
but they’re just a reflection of the real magic inside you.

Even the absurd can become sacred and meaningful,
if you give it the right frame.

So yes.
Mrs. Claus made the naughty list.
And she earned every line of it.

— C.S. Evermore