1. You are welcome here, Rose Walker.Copy !req
2. Who are you?Copy !req
3. You have somehow dreamed your way
into an audience with Lord Morpheus.Copy !req
4. The King of Dreams.Copy !req
5. - And now you must go.
- Lucienne.Copy !req
6. She shouldn't be here.Copy !req
7. No, but I should like her to stay.Copy !req
8. What is this place?Copy !req
9. You're in The Dreaming,Copy !req
10. the place where
people come when they sleep.Copy !req
11. So, I'm asleep right now? I'm dreaming?Copy !req
12. Yes, and I should like to know
how it is you found me.Copy !req
13. I heard you talking about my brother.
Is he here?Copy !req
14. No.Copy !req
15. Do you know where he is?Copy !req
16. No.Copy !req
17. But I think he might be with
one of my missing Nightmares.Copy !req
18. She's a nightmare?Copy !req
19. What would she want with Jed?Copy !req
20. I don't know.Copy !req
21. But I have a feeling
it has something to do with you.Copy !req
22. Me? Why? What did I do?Copy !req
23. It is not what you did.
It is what you are.Copy !req
24. I'm sorry. I don't understand any of this.Copy !req
25. No.Copy !req
26. Dream vortexes
are largely incomprehensible.Copy !req
27. What's a dream vortex?Copy !req
28. You are.Copy !req
29. You see, once every few thousand years,Copy !req
30. a mortal is born with
a dreaming ability so powerful,Copy !req
31. she can travel
through the dreams of others.Copy !req
32. Apparently, all the way to my throne room.Copy !req
33. I was just looking for my brother.Copy !req
34. If you can find me in The Dreaming,
you can find your brother.Copy !req
35. No matter where Gault has hidden him.Copy !req
36. How? How do I do that?Copy !req
37. For now, keep looking for your brother
in the waking world.Copy !req
38. Matthew will watch over you there.Copy !req
39. At your service, Rose.Copy !req
40. When he is with you, I am with you.Copy !req
41. Then tonight, when you sleep,Copy !req
42. you and I will go in search
for Gault and your brother together.Copy !req
43. In your dreams.Copy !req
44. She's just a nightmare, right?Copy !req
45. She can't hurt him, can she?Copy !req
46. Which one of my enemies is it this time?Copy !req
47. Johnny Sorrow?Copy !req
48. The Phantom of the Fair?Copy !req
49. Or is Doctor Death back for more?Copy !req
50. It's the Pied Piper.Copy !req
51. He appears to be using
next-gen sonic technologyCopy !req
52. to control all the area's children.Copy !req
53. This looks like a job for...Copy !req
54. The Sandman.Copy !req
55. Time I put the Piper to bed.Copy !req
56. No sign of the Piper. No sign of anyone.Copy !req
57. I'm afraid we're too late.
They've all been kidnapped.Copy !req
58. Wait.Copy !req
59. Can you hear that?Copy !req
60. The Pipers' tune.Copy !req
61. Can you hear where it's coming from?Copy !req
62. I can.Copy !req
63. Are you seeing this?Copy !req
64. I am,
and I don't like what I'm seeing.Copy !req
65. Return to base, Sandman.Copy !req
66. Don't worry.Copy !req
67. I've got this.Copy !req
68. Rats!Copy !req
69. Get back here, Jed. Right now.Copy !req
70. There's too many of them! Ahh!Copy !req
71. - Help! - I'm trying, Jed, hold on.Copy !req
72. - No! - Jed!Copy !req
73. - Please help! - Jed!Copy !req
74. Aunt Clarice?Copy !req
75. Uncle Barnaby?Copy !req
76. I-I-I think I'm hurt.Copy !req
77. Is anyone there?Copy !req
78. Don't.Copy !req
79. We can't just leave him down there.Copy !req
80. The second you open that door,
he's gonna run away again.Copy !req
81. He has to learn.Copy !req
82. Aunt Clarice?Copy !req
83. Is anyone there?Copy !req
84. Matthew?Copy !req
85. Unity, hi. It's Rose calling.Copy !req
86. How are you, darling?Copy !req
87. How was it with the foster agent?
Was she awful?Copy !req
88. Well, she wouldn't tell us where Jed is.Copy !req
89. Oh, no, of course not.Copy !req
90. That would have made it far too easy.Copy !req
91. But she did tell us one thing.Copy !req
92. Apparently, Jed's foster parents
were friends of my dad's.Copy !req
93. So, she told you quite a bit.Copy !req
94. Do you remember your father's friends?Copy !req
95. No, but if it's okay with you,Copy !req
96. I thought I'd stay longer and maybe...Copy !req
97. Oh, of course, love. Of course, Rose.Copy !req
98. - May I?
- Please.Copy !req
99. Unity, am I interrupting something?Copy !req
100. There is a lovely young journalist hereCopy !req
101. who wants to interview me
about the sleepy sickness.Copy !req
102. Unity.Copy !req
103. I keep telling him,
I slept through the entire thing.Copy !req
104. I'm hanging up now. Enjoy being famous.Copy !req
105. That was my great-granddaughter, Rose.Copy !req
106. Oh. Is she in London?Copy !req
107. She was.Copy !req
108. Now she's back in the United States.
In Florida.Copy !req
109. Really? Whereabouts in Florida?Copy !req
110. A town called Cape Kennedy.Copy !req
111. You sound American to me. Have you been?Copy !req
112. Cape Kennedy? No.
But now I'll have to visit.Copy !req
113. Did you figure out the printer?Copy !req
114. I did.Copy !req
115. What do you think?Copy !req
116. Oh.Copy !req
117. I think I wanna help you
put these up all over town.Copy !req
118. - Really?
- Mm-hmm.Copy !req
119. - Can I pay you for them?
- You already did.Copy !req
120. I overcharged you for the room.Copy !req
121. May I see?Copy !req
122. Morning!Copy !req
123. Oh, my gosh. Rose!Copy !req
124. Oh, look at you guys. Can I have some?Copy !req
125. Uh, babe. What are you doin'?Copy !req
126. Putting these up.Copy !req
127. Yeah, but we're out all day with Sindy.Copy !req
128. Sindy can put some up too.
She's our realtor. She's fabulous.Copy !req
129. Thank you, guys.Copy !req
130. Zelda suggests we take some as well.Copy !req
131. Thank you.Copy !req
132. We can all hit the streets
when Lyta wakes up.Copy !req
133. She's still asleep?Copy !req
134. I just wanna stay like this forever.Copy !req
135. I do too, but...Copy !req
136. What?Copy !req
137. You should be out,
living your actual life,Copy !req
138. not having ghost-sex
with your dead husband.Copy !req
139. You're not a ghost, you're a dream.Copy !req
140. Yeah.Copy !req
141. Been meaning to talk to you about that.Copy !req
142. If I were a dream,Copy !req
143. wouldn't I disappear when you wake up?Copy !req
144. - Don't you?
- No.Copy !req
145. Then what do you do?Copy !req
146. I go to work. I... I cook. I work out—Copy !req
147. You go to work?Copy !req
148. Yeah.Copy !req
149. Doing what?Copy !req
150. I finally built our house.Copy !req
151. Can I show you?Copy !req
152. You... You built our house?Copy !req
153. Come on. I'll give you the tour.Copy !req
154. I did my best to follow your blueprints,Copy !req
155. but there were a few details
I, I just couldn't remember.Copy !req
156. It's perfect.Copy !req
157. What's in there?Copy !req
158. Uh, that room's not quite finished yet.Copy !req
159. Why did you build this?Copy !req
160. Because it was our dream.Copy !req
161. And now that we're both here,
maybe it can come true.Copy !req
162. How?Copy !req
163. You have to stay with me.Copy !req
164. Here.Copy !req
165. In our house, the way we planned.Copy !req
166. Sweetie.Copy !req
167. You know eventually I have to wake up.Copy !req
168. You're awake.Copy !req
169. Yeah.Copy !req
170. - You okay?
- Yeah.Copy !req
171. What are those?Copy !req
172. Is this a terrible idea?Copy !req
173. No, not at all.Copy !req
174. 'Cause I was thinking, we could put up
a few near the foster agency?Copy !req
175. Just to let that woman know
we're not giving up.Copy !req
176. No, I think she probably got that
from yesterday.Copy !req
177. Was I that bad?Copy !req
178. - Should I go there and apologize?
- No.Copy !req
179. But why don't you let me
do that side of town?Copy !req
180. My lord, may I help?Copy !req
181. Is this everything
we have on Rose Walker?Copy !req
182. And Jed Walker.Copy !req
183. But I shouldn't think there's anything
in those you don't already know.Copy !req
184. Except perhaps—Copy !req
185. Except perhaps why she was able
to wander into my throne room.Copy !req
186. What do you think?Copy !req
187. Why did Gault target her brother
and not her?Copy !req
188. Did you read about Unity Kincaid?Copy !req
189. The day you were imprisoned,Copy !req
190. there were people all over the world
who fell asleep and could not wake up.Copy !req
191. Unity Kincaid is the sole survivor
of what they called the "sleepy sickness."Copy !req
192. The day you returned, she woke up.Copy !req
193. Rose Walker is her great-granddaughter.Copy !req
194. Which would seem to suggest that
my absence caused the birth of a vortex.Copy !req
195. Is that not a possibility?Copy !req
196. Vortexes are
naturally occurring phenomena.Copy !req
197. No one knows why they happen.
Not even I know.Copy !req
198. But I do know
they are not caused or created.Copy !req
199. They simply happen.Copy !req
200. Then this is all a coincidence?
And not an imminent threat?Copy !req
201. My instinct says no, but tonight
when Rose Walker sleeps,Copy !req
202. I shall see it more clearly. May I?Copy !req
203. Of course.Copy !req
204. I've been trying to
remember my dad's friends,Copy !req
205. but I don't think he had any.Copy !req
206. He was a pretty unfriendly guy.Copy !req
207. Well, do you remember any golf buddies,
or drinking buddies, or...Copy !req
208. What else do
married straight men with kids do?Copy !req
209. Well, if they're anything like my dad,
they have affairs.Copy !req
210. Oh.Copy !req
211. That's why your mom divorced him.Copy !req
212. That was just one reason.Copy !req
213. Maybe your dad didn't have friends.Copy !req
214. That's why I thought
we'd start with his neighbors.Copy !req
215. That was his house. Our house.Copy !req
216. The last time I saw Jed was right there,
seven years ago.Copy !req
217. You haven't seen him since?Copy !req
218. When my mom got a job in New Jersey,
my dad cut us off completely.Copy !req
219. Stopped paying alimony, child support.Copy !req
220. He wouldn't let us see
or even talk to Jed.Copy !req
221. Hmm.Copy !req
222. My mom sued.Copy !req
223. She never gave up,
but I went off to college.Copy !req
224. I haven't been a very good sister.Copy !req
225. Mm, you're making up for it now, though.Copy !req
226. I'm trying.Copy !req
227. Come in.Copy !req
228. Hi, Ms. Rubio.Copy !req
229. I'm Lyta Hall. Rose Walker's friend.Copy !req
230. What can I do for you, Ms. Hall?Copy !req
231. I just wanted to come by
and apologize for yesterday.Copy !req
232. I know your job is hard enoughCopy !req
233. without having to deal with
other people's, uh, grief.Copy !req
234. 'Cause that's what it was. It wasn't you.Copy !req
235. Rose wanted to come by but—Copy !req
236. But she is out looking for her brother.Copy !req
237. I think she really just
wants to know if he's okay.Copy !req
238. I'm sure he is.Copy !req
239. Is there any way you could find out?
Check up on him?Copy !req
240. You wouldn't have to tell us.Copy !req
241. I don't wanna get you in trouble,
but do you do follow-up visits?Copy !req
242. We do. But I can't just—Copy !req
243. No, I understand.Copy !req
244. I'm sorry.Copy !req
245. That's really all I came here to say.Copy !req
246. Thank you, Ms. Rubio, for your time.Copy !req
247. The woman from the foster agency
wants to come by.Copy !req
248. For what?Copy !req
249. - To check on Jed.
- What?Copy !req
250. Why now, all of a sudden?Copy !req
251. It's a... They do that.
It's a regular thing.Copy !req
252. What did you tell her?Copy !req
253. Well, I couldn't tell her no.Copy !req
254. I can.Copy !req
255. Call her back.Copy !req
256. Fine, I'll do it.Copy !req
257. You don't think
that's gonna raise a red flag?Copy !req
258. If you don't want him here,
we can give him back.Copy !req
259. I'm not giving back $800 a month.Copy !req
260. Get him up here.Copy !req
261. I'll talk to him.
I'll make sure he doesn't run away again.Copy !req
262. No. I'll talk to him.Copy !req
263. Come on up, Jed.Copy !req
264. - You're all right.Copy !req
265. The woman from the foster agency's
coming to check up on you.Copy !req
266. If you're good,
you can sleep in your own bed tonight.Copy !req
267. But if you embarrass us
in front of this woman,Copy !req
268. I will take you back into the cellar.Copy !req
269. I will wire your hands to
the pipes down there,Copy !req
270. and I will break every bone in your body.Copy !req
271. Do you understand me, Jed?Copy !req
272. Then go clean yourself up.Copy !req
273. Here. I'll fix you something to eat.Copy !req
274. I mean, I tried to escape.Copy !req
275. I went directly to New York after college
to have a huge Broadway career,Copy !req
276. before moving on to film
and television, of course.Copy !req
277. Of course.Copy !req
278. But, you know, these days,Copy !req
279. if you're not already
a film or television star,Copy !req
280. you can't even get a job on Broadway.Copy !req
281. So, when my grandmother diedCopy !req
282. and left me that ridiculous house,
I came home.Copy !req
283. Do you miss New York?Copy !req
284. - Not as much as I thought I would.
- Hmm.Copy !req
285. I mean, New York's very hard,
and this place is not so bad.Copy !req
286. I'm gonna put a few up over there.Copy !req
287. So if you maybe want to...Copy !req
288. Yeah, absolutely. I'll catch up with you.Copy !req
289. Matthew, is that you?Copy !req
290. No, that's a crow.Copy !req
291. I'm a raven. Common mistake.Copy !req
292. You're real?Copy !req
293. Technically I'm a dream, but sure.Copy !req
294. And is Morpheus watching right now?Copy !req
295. He is. I can feel him
in the back of my head.Copy !req
296. It's the weirdest feeling.Copy !req
297. Fuck.Copy !req
298. Do you need him?Copy !req
299. No, but he said
he'd be there tonight when I fall asleep.Copy !req
300. He's gonna help me find my brother.Copy !req
301. That's the plan.Copy !req
302. And I'll be around till then
if you need me.Copy !req
303. Thank you.Copy !req
304. You got it, kid.Copy !req
305. Jed Walker. If you see him
or know anything about him, just text.Copy !req
306. Okay. Thanks.Copy !req
307. What have you got there?Copy !req
308. Hi.Copy !req
309. Uh, we're looking
for a kid named Jed Walker.Copy !req
310. He would be about 12 now.Copy !req
311. Oh. How long has he been missing?Copy !req
312. Well, he's not actually missing.
He's in foster care.Copy !req
313. But the agency won't tell us where.Copy !req
314. - Would you mind if I kept this?
- No, not at all.Copy !req
315. Mm. See you around.Copy !req
316. Yeah, I hope so.Copy !req
317. Friend of yours?Copy !req
318. No, but he took a flier,
so he might be calling.Copy !req
319. Mm-hmm. I'll give him your number.Copy !req
320. You're a good friend, Rose Walker.Copy !req
321. He's doing great in school.Copy !req
322. Helps out around the house.Copy !req
323. Never complains.Copy !req
324. I don't know what we'd do without him.Copy !req
325. Right, Barn?Copy !req
326. That's right.Copy !req
327. I'm so happy to hear that.Copy !req
328. You look good, Jed.Copy !req
329. You look happy.Copy !req
330. Thank you, ma'am.Copy !req
331. I wonder if I might have
a moment alone with you both.Copy !req
332. It's just some admin updates.Copy !req
333. You wanna go to your room, son?Copy !req
334. It's all pretty straightforward.Copy !req
335. I just need to update Jed's file
with all his current information.Copy !req
336. His school, insurance.
All the usual stuff.Copy !req
337. Is he still in Callow Elementary?Copy !req
338. So good to see you, Ms. Rubio.Copy !req
339. Oh.Copy !req
340. It's good to see you too, Jed.Copy !req
341. Hello. How can I help you?Copy !req
342. I have a question for you.Copy !req
343. Have you seen this boy?Copy !req
344. Your Aunt Clarice and I
want you to know we were very impressed.Copy !req
345. With the way you got this note
into that lady's bag.Copy !req
346. I'm sorry.Copy !req
347. No, you're not.Copy !req
348. But you will be.Copy !req
349. Hmm.Copy !req
350. Where is everyone?Copy !req
351. They must have all gone to bed.Copy !req
352. There's not much to do
in Cape Kennedy after dark.Copy !req
353. Or during the day for that matter.Copy !req
354. That's kinda what I like about it.Copy !req
355. I was thinking, maybe I should move back.Copy !req
356. Why? To do what?Copy !req
357. I don't know.Copy !req
358. Before my mom died,
I was gonna go to grad schoolCopy !req
359. and try to become a writer.Copy !req
360. But maybe it's like you and New York.Copy !req
361. God. I hope not.Copy !req
362. No, I mean, your life is here.Copy !req
363. You have this house.Copy !req
364. People who love you. You've got Dolly.Copy !req
365. Rose, do you think I wanna be here?Copy !req
366. Cleaning up after Barbie and Ken?Copy !req
367. Don't get me wrong,
I love them, they're great.Copy !req
368. But if Broadway called tomorrow,
I would sell this fucking house.Copy !req
369. And I would never think about
any of these people ever again.Copy !req
370. Go to grad school,Copy !req
371. write a novel... about me,Copy !req
372. but do it now while I'm still cute enough
to play myself in the movie.Copy !req
373. 'Cause this was never my dream.Copy !req
374. Hold on, buddy.Copy !req
375. I'm on my way.Copy !req
376. Here she is, boys.Copy !req
377. Here she is, world.Copy !req
378. Here's Rose!Copy !req
379. Play it, boys.Copy !req
380. Well, I got it.Copy !req
381. Okay, doll. Listen carefully.Copy !req
382. I'm only gonna say this once.Copy !req
383. This is not my real face.Copy !req
384. And this is not my real face either.Copy !req
385. Hal, you're gonna have
to come up here and help me.Copy !req
386. Mama's runnin' out of hands.Copy !req
387. Rose?Copy !req
388. Rose?Copy !req
389. I am having
a relationship with a sentence.Copy !req
390. It was just one of those things.Copy !req
391. It was a chance meetingCopy !req
392. that grew into something
more important for both of us.Copy !req
393. Everybody knows about me and the sentence.Copy !req
394. And now,Copy !req
395. I have the pleasure of reading itCopy !req
396. into the Library of Congress.Copy !req
397. Rose?Copy !req
398. Babe! Please open the door.Copy !req
399. Let me in the car.
Barb, it's not funny anymore.Copy !req
400. Honey! Just open the door.Copy !req
401. Barbie, open the door.
It's not funny anymore.Copy !req
402. Let me in the car! Barb!Copy !req
403. Come on!Copy !req
404. Honey, I need to get in the car.
Okay? Just let me in the car, please.Copy !req
405. Why is this happening?
I thought we were looking for Jed.Copy !req
406. We are.Copy !req
407. Then why am I in my friends' dreams?Copy !req
408. Because you are drawing
the dreams of others to you.Copy !req
409. Barbie, please! What'd I do?Copy !req
410. Just be careful
not to lose yourself in them.Copy !req
411. Take a moment. Find your own path.Copy !req
412. I can hardly believe it.Copy !req
413. Here we are at last.Copy !req
414. The Arch of the Porpentine.Copy !req
415. Our journey has indeed been long,
Miss Barbara,Copy !req
416. and many's the worthy companion
we have found and lost along the way.Copy !req
417. So many lives lost, Martin Tenbones.Copy !req
418. And because of what?Copy !req
419. A confection of spun silver
and rose quartz.Copy !req
420. The Porpentine is more than that, lady,
as you know in your soul of souls.Copy !req
421. So, what is a dream vortex?Copy !req
422. What is it for? What does it do?Copy !req
423. I confess, there are some questions
to which even I do not have an answer.Copy !req
424. But I can tell you that a vortexCopy !req
425. has the power to dream
entire worlds or destroy them.Copy !req
426. Is that...Copy !req
427. Zelda.Copy !req
428. When she was your brother's age.Copy !req
429. Mommy and Daddy told me to go away.
So, here I am in the old bone orchards.Copy !req
430. Nobody understands me.Copy !req
431. Nobody cares.Copy !req
432. Nobody understands but Chantal.Copy !req
433. Chantal comes along,
shows me she's my soul sister.Copy !req
434. Me and her are gothic heroines,Copy !req
435. secret brides to the faceless slaves
of the nameless nightCopy !req
436. of the castle of dread desire.Copy !req
437. Is she lost?Copy !req
438. She's at home here.Copy !req
439. That is what most people seek
when they dream.Copy !req
440. Home?Copy !req
441. Do you know where that is for Jed?Copy !req
442. You know this place?Copy !req
443. That was our house growing up. Look.Copy !req
444. You've done it.Copy !req
445. You've found your brother's dream.Copy !req
446. Now, we find Gault.Copy !req
447. He's not a member
of my rogues gallery.Copy !req
448. He's the most powerful foe
we have ever faced.Copy !req
449. The King of Nightmares.Copy !req
450. And he has come to take me away from you.Copy !req
451. I'm not about to let that happen.Copy !req
452. Thank you, Sandman.Copy !req
453. But this battle is mine to face.Copy !req
454. And mine alone.Copy !req
455. We'll see about that.Copy !req
456. Jed, Jed, come back, please.Copy !req
457. What's our next move? How do we find him?Copy !req
458. Halt, King of Nightmares,
or I'll send you both to Dreamland.Copy !req
459. Jed?Copy !req
460. I am the Guardian of Sleepers.Copy !req
461. I am Lord of the Dream Domain.Copy !req
462. I am the Sandman.Copy !req
463. You are the Sandman?Copy !req
464. Is that what she told you?Copy !req
465. Where is she? Your master.Copy !req
466. Stay back.Copy !req
467. Jed, we're not here to hurt you.Copy !req
468. It's me you want. Not him.Copy !req
469. Oh, my God. Mom?Copy !req
470. That is not your mother, Rose.Copy !req
471. Rose?Copy !req
472. Is that you?Copy !req
473. I've been looking for you everywhere.Copy !req
474. Mom, it's Rose. She's all grown up.Copy !req
475. I'm sorry, Jed.Copy !req
476. Mom! What did you do to her?Copy !req
477. Jed! Jed, look at me.Copy !req
478. She is not our mom.Copy !req
479. Our mom is not here, but I am,
and I need you to tell me where you are.Copy !req
480. I'm right here.Copy !req
481. No, Jeddy, this is a dream.Copy !req
482. When you wake up, where will you be?Copy !req
483. Look. Did you write this?Copy !req
484. Uncle Barnaby said he's
gonna break every bone in my body.Copy !req
485. - Who's Barnaby?
- Aunt Clarice won't be able to stop him.Copy !req
486. Where are Aunt Clarice
and Uncle Barnaby?Copy !req
487. They're home. They're in Homeland.Copy !req
488. Where is that? Where is Home Land, Jed?Copy !req
489. Come, Gault. We must go.Copy !req
490. I'm sorry, Sandman.Copy !req
491. It's time to wake up, Jed.Copy !req
492. Wait, no!Copy !req
493. Goodbye, Rose Walker.Copy !req
494. Stop! Not yet. Jed, tell me where you are.Copy !req
495. Rose?Copy !req
496. Rose?Copy !req
497. Rose!Copy !req
498. You expecting someone?Copy !req
499. No.Copy !req
500. Good morning.Copy !req
501. You're making it very difficult
for me to leave this morning.Copy !req
502. That was the plan.Copy !req
503. Just hear me out.Copy !req
504. You being here, in my dream,Copy !req
505. means something is different.
Something has shifted.Copy !req
506. So, if you can choose to be here...Copy !req
507. maybe you can choose to stay.Copy !req
508. Think about it.
We can have the life we always wanted.Copy !req
509. Have a baby.Copy !req
510. Start a family.Copy !req
511. Lyta.Copy !req
512. This is a dream.Copy !req
513. Anything is possible.Copy !req
514. Oh, my God.Copy !req
515. What is happening?Copy !req
516. Lyta, I found him. I found Jed.Copy !req
517. - What?
- I found Jed.Copy !req
518. Just a minute.Copy !req
519. Do you have any idea
what his life is like in the waking world?Copy !req
520. Humans cannot live in dreams.Copy !req
521. As long as he stayed there,
the child had no lifeCopy !req
522. nor the chance for one.Copy !req
523. The boy is being abused.Copy !req
524. He's suffering.Copy !req
525. You abused that sufferingCopy !req
526. to build a Dreaming you could rule.Copy !req
527. I had no wish to rule.Copy !req
528. I merely wish to be a Dream
and not a Nightmare.Copy !req
529. To inspire rather than to frighten.Copy !req
530. The choice is not yours to make.Copy !req
531. We do not choose to be created.Copy !req
532. Nor do we choose how we are made.Copy !req
533. That is true.Copy !req
534. - But we can change.
- No.Copy !req
535. We are, each of us,
born with responsibilities.Copy !req
536. Even I am not free to choose
to be other than I am.Copy !req
537. Nor is anyone.Copy !req
538. If that were true,Copy !req
539. why did all the other
Dreams and NightmaresCopy !req
540. choose to leave this place
when you had gone away?Copy !req
541. Not all of us chose to leave
and nearly all have returned.Copy !req
542. Do you think they came back out of love?Copy !req
543. Or because they were afraid
of what you would do to themCopy !req
544. if they did not?Copy !req
545. Because I'm not afraid.Copy !req
546. You should be.Copy !req
547. A Nightmare's purpose is
to reveal a dreamer's fears,Copy !req
548. that they may face them.Copy !req
549. Perhaps a few thousand years
in the darkness will reveal your fears.Copy !req
550. Better that than to make others afraid.Copy !req
551. Even a Nightmare can dream, my lord.Copy !req
552. You feel her punishment was unjust?Copy !req
553. I used to be something else.Copy !req
554. Before you made me your librarian.Copy !req
555. We all change, sir.Copy !req
556. Even you, perhaps. One day.Copy !req
557. Lucienne, I realize that in my absence,Copy !req
558. you were compelled to
make decisions in my stead,Copy !req
559. and I am grateful to you.Copy !req
560. But I am back now.Copy !req
561. You may return to the library.Copy !req
562. You must be Jed.Copy !req
563. Your sister sent me.Copy !req
564. Your sister, Rose.Copy !req
565. Ma'am, you can't be here.Copy !req
566. My little brother, Jed,
he lives with them.Copy !req
567. Is he inside? Is he okay?Copy !req
568. There was no one else inside.Copy !req
569. Just the two adult victims.Copy !req
570. Wherever your brother is, he's not here.Copy !req
571. So, how do you know my sister?Copy !req
572. I don't.Copy !req
573. But I'm really looking forward
to meeting her.Copy !req