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“He said you knew what it was from his screams,” he prompted.
“Because if you sleep within earshot of Izzy Hands for two decades you do get to know the sound and rhythm of his nightmares,” Ed vouched, sounding a little tired. “There are… the ones about his childhood, where he sounds so young and scared. There are the ones about his years aboard ships, where he sounds more like himself – maybe just angry, rage filled.”
Sing, O Muse, of the wrath of Achilles…
“But the ones where he dreams about that thing, that Killing Sun… that’s the ones where he sounds like a man in terror of his mortal soul being dragged straight into Hell. I can ignore all noises out of his berth except that one.”
“I wish I could say it summoned him out of a solid sleep,” Bonnet said, staring into his tea. His gaze flicked up to Lucius’s. “But we weren’t sleeping at the time.”
Series
- Part 9 of Midnight Sketches
- Part 22 of Expanded Meraverse - OFMD