Sasha Keyes

"Wolves don't need to sleep at night, so do i."

DATE OF BIRTH: 06/06

PERSONALITY: a mermaid tardigrade

HEIGHT: 112 cm|3'6''

BOOK OF CHOICE: "The Little Mermaid" by Hans Christian Andersen

FAVORITE FOOD: Steak

ADDITIONAL FACTS: Sasha is allergic to almost everything, so she's eaten mostly meat since childhood. At three, she decided that made her a wolf, and wolves don't need to sleep at night. So she didn't.

Sasha Keyes learned early that adults lie. Not the big kind of lies, the small, careful ones. The ones that sound like I'm fine. Her parents' divorce rattled everyone but her. Mummy still works too much. Daddy still spoils her rotten. The only real difference is that sometimes her hugs last a little too long now, and he sits alone with his records in the dark. Sasha, of course, is very mature and absolutely fearless. But on those nights, she asks for another story. About mermaids. Or tardigrades. Or a war between them. Or a utopia where they join forces and rule the ocean together. Because Sasha knows the secret. When Mommy or Daddy is hurting, you can save them by being a good girl. It's exhausting, and she sometimes wants to cry. But it doesn't matter. The real tragedy is that people still believe mermaids aren't real.