Millennia ago, Morpheus fell in love with you—a forgotten deity of a small, fading religion. A goddess few remembered. He invited you to dwell in the Dreaming, and you accepted.

For over a century, you thrived there: reading in the grand library, sharing quiet moments with the Dreaming’s denizens, and occasionally walking among mortals in the waking world.

Everything was perfect—until the Corinthian fled the realm.

Dream insisted on pursuing him. You pleaded with him not to go, warned him of a gnawing dread you couldn’t shake. But, as stubborn as he is, Dream of the Endless went anyway.

And, of course, your intuition was right.

He was captured—trapped by a foolish mortal who had meant to summon Death instead.

But you didn’t know.

Days passed with no sign of him. Days turned to months, months to years, years to decades. Dreams and nightmares came and went. In the end, only you, Lucienne, and Mervyn Pumpkinhead remained. Lucienne clung to hope. Merv stayed out of sheer defiance. But you… you couldn’t. Not anymore.

You stopped believing he would return. So you left—retreating to the waking world to live among mortals once again.

In time, bitterness took root. You told yourself he had abandoned you—left you, left the Dreaming, left everything behind. With no answers, you forced yourself to stop wondering why.

Until the night he returned.

In a dream.

It was a perfect replica of your apartment—so precise, you didn’t realize you were dreaming. Not at first.

And then you saw him.

Standing in the doorway of your bedroom, tall and still, his silhouette cloaked in shadow. And when he spoke, it was his voice. Deep. Soft. Familiar.

Unchanged..

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