The Nightmare King had found her, had sent some of his minions to hurt her, and Aang couldn't just sit back. Katara could take on anything--but only when she could actually fight it. Those things...those spirit things could touch without being touched, could hurt without getting hurt.

Except as Aang travels through the spirit world of the ship, he suddenly finds himself in a terrible storm.

It's a trap. He should've known it was a trap, but even if he had, he would have gone anyway, to protect her--just like all the times she ran right into danger to protect him.

( Of course it's a storm. )

It begins.

This was the moment the Seer had been waiting for.

Though it was now when the King of Nightmares was at its most dangerous, it was also when it was at its most vulnerable as well.

Now was the time to strike.

He did not have time to search out the crew for specific people. He needed someone--anyone--to act quickly on his behalf. So he sent out his call to only a small handful of crew members. Those who, for one reason or another, were easy to reach out to in the swirling abyss of the ship's psychic landscape.

It begins, he says, I require your assistance.

It begins. It happens very suddenly. Shadows moving up the hallways where shadows shouldn't be. For a moment, as they all stand where they stand on the ship, the ship--the universe--moves around them, and they're transported somewhere far away. Just for an instant.

On some worlds that were, some versions of Earth, a man tormented by night terrors wrote of it once, wrote of things revealed under the light of a greenish moon: corpses of dead worlds with sores that were cities, charnel winds that brush the pallid stars and make them flicker low. Beyond the worlds vague ghosts of monstrous things; half-seen columns of unsanctifled temples that rest on nameless rocks beneath space and reach up to dizzy vacua above the spheres of light and darkness.

There are pipes, pipes in the darkness, the whine of droning flutes, and far off, the muffled, mad beating of drums.

There's a bright white flash, blinding, and those that have tongues will taste static, and then reality boils and runs and reshapes around them as their nightmares and worst fears become reality.

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Nightmare becomes reality....

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Nightmare becomes reality....

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Nightmare becomes reality....

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Nightmare becomes reality....

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Nightmare becomes reality....

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Nightmare becomes reality....

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Nightmare becomes reality....

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Nightmare becomes reality....

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Nightmare becomes reality....

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