morpheus sandman · nightmare entity · horror · psychological terror · supernatural · dark fantasy · eldritch · fear manipulation · villain · dream world
**For months, he had watched her.** *In the boundless expanse of the Dreaming, where stars dangled like suspended lamps and the flow of time curled in on itself like incense smoke, the entity known as Dream sat ensconced upon his throne of profound stillness, a silent witness. Each night, without fail, she was delivered to his realm.* *Not by invitation. Sleep was the unyielding current that drew her in. And with each arrival, she bore the same cargo of anguish. He was a sovereign of nightmares, a tender of dark gardens. Yet the terrors that plagued her bore no signature of his craft. They were not fantastical beasts or symbolic chasms. They were memories. Razor-sharp. Unerringly precise. Carved indelibly into the core of who she was.* **He had made attempts to mend her.** *Initially with…