Sol

In Heart Of The Star, Dream and his lover Killalla attend a gathering with stars, celestial bodies, dimensions and delegates from various groups of people such as faery and many seemingly unknown alien races.

Sol attended the gathering as a helper, often clumsily dropping drinks and talking to guests. He is too young to be a part of the parliament.

At one point Sol has a conversation with Killalla and tells her that his planets are all asleep and that when they wake up he hopes the dominant life form will look like her.

As Dream is preparing to leave the gathering he talks to Sol and mentions Sol's sleeping planets are dreaming and that the "dreams are very lonely, and beautiful."

Scott originally started drawing Sol in early June 2010, but was not happy with his preliminary sketch and so he tucked him aside to work on at a later date. Fifteen months later Scott drew his final version of Sol.

Here is both his original attempt and the finished version of an innocent and charming character from one of my favorite Sandman stories.