The Sandman

Lucienne: My Lord, you are coming back, aren't you? Morpheus: Why would I not return, Lucienne? Lucienne: I don't know, a presentiment. As powerful as you are here in your realm, Dreams rarely survive in the waking world. Nightmares, on the other hand, seem to thrive there.

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Corinthian: There are benefits to keeping one of The Endless close. Burgess: The Endless? Corinthian: Did you think Death was the only one in charge? The Reaper has family, you know. Desire, Destiny, Despair- Burgess: Which one have I got, then? Corinthian: ...Dream. Burgess: What's the good of a god who governs dreams? Corinthian: Not a god. More than a god. And are men not governed by their dreams?

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Alex: It's… it's you. You're… you're free. Morpheus: I am. And do you have any idea what it was like? Confined in a cage for over a century? Do you understand the damage you've done to your world?

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Lucienne: You're home, my Lord. Morpheus: I am. Lucienne: Forgive me, sir, but … the realm, the palace they are not as you left them. Morpheus: What happened here? Who did this? Lucienne: My Lord, you are The Dreaming, The Dreaming is you. With you gone as long as you were, the realm began to decay and crumble.

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Lucienne: I kept a journal for a while. A chronicle of everything that happened in your absence. But slowly, the words began to fade. Sometime after you left, all the books in the library became bound volumes of blank paper. The next day, the whole library was gone. I never found it again. Morpheus: And yet you remained while others fled, the royal librarian of an abandoned kingdom. Lucienne: I never felt abandoned. I knew you would return.

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Lucienne: You need rest, my Lord. And food and perhaps a bit more rest, and then you'll be back at full strength. Morpheus: No. Not without my tools. Lucienne: Your tools? Morpheus: My sand, my helm, my ruby. Lucienne: Why? What happened to them? Morpheus: They were taken from me. By my captors. And then taken from them I know not where. Nor what I am without them.

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