Character from The Black Company by Glen Cook
The Company's third Annalist — a woman passing as a man in a mercenary company, who took over when there was nobody else left to hold the pen.
Sleepy is the third Annalist and eventually Captain of the Black Company — a Nyueng Bao woman who joined disguised as a boy and maintained the deception until it no longer mattered. She takes over the Annals and the Company during its lowest point, when most of the veteran members are trapped under the earth by the Shadowmaster. Her Annals voice is the most methodical of the three narrators — she approaches history as a duty rather than Croaker's therapeutic writing or Murgen's confused scribbling. She's organized, determined, and pragmatic in a way that keeps the Company alive when it should by all rights be dead. Her leadership brings the Company south to Khatovar, completing the centuries-long journey to the Company's legendary origin. She's the one who gets them there — the small, quiet Annalist who outlasted everyone louder.
Small, dark, Nyueng Bao heritage. Successfully passed as a teenage boy for years in the Company — slight build and young face made the deception possible. When her sex is revealed, the Company's reaction is more pragmatic than dramatic: she can fight, she can write, what's the problem?
Also known as: Sleepy