Mumford DrabblesBROKEN CROWNCharacters: Aiden (minor: Hunter)The pull on my flesh was just too strongIt stifled the choice and the air in my lungsBetter not to breathe than to breathe a lieCause when I open my body, I breathe a lie He became an insomniac when he was eleven. At first it was torture, unable to sleep for fear of his own world. There was something very wrong, he knew, something wrong with the fact that a dog rescuing a man from drowning in the canals was given more air time than the witchling desertion of the eastern fishing islands. Something very wrong with his parents, who sat there and told him he didn't know the full story,