But he found himself exceptionally alert as Tressana led him past guards almost too sleepy to present arms to their queen.
At the border, sleepy guards anxious to get off duty waved him on through when he held up his German passport.
She shuffled through the town gates, passing between sleepy guards too tired to kick her.
The first salvo of four blew up the guard shack and its two sleepy guards.
It was badly hung, though; he could see people behind them reflected in the glass, two students, the sleepy guard.
A short distance away, a sleepy guard kept watch over the strongly barred postem.
He passed through another metal door, nodded at the sleepy guard on the far side and turned right towards his office.
A single warrior stood sleepy guard beside the fire that yellow eyes out of the darkness beyond the camp made imperative.
There would be a few sleepy guards outside, but she would simply say the king had dismissed her.
AT the studio gate a sleepy guard stretched his arms and yawned.