Dustin couldn’t dream. Not normally, at least—sometimes his mind might run through a memory or two, work out some equations or formulas to write down in the morning—not to mention his mental defenses were extremely powerful, powerful enough to even deter a small-scale attack by a shipbound god, if you can believe it.
The waking world, on the other hand, was proving to be far more difficult a realm to defend. The Nightmare King no longer had to rely so much on getting inside Dustin’s head as he did projecting outside of it, thereby rendering the genius’s maelstrom of thoughts and memories as just a means of fodder. Still images would appear out of the corner of Dustin’s vision, trailing him like wispy Shades on the prowl, only to disappear as soon as he turned around.
Paranoia was nothing new to this man. But by this point it was just becoming ridiculous.
It didn’t help when, while pacing briskly through the halls, Dustin saw the strange bird-child from the gathering disappear through a wavering portal of some sort in front of his eyes. Convinced that something very wrong was going on here, the scruffy man followed him inside.
The walls were closing in…
“Hey!” Dustin called gruffly, his breathing suddenly constricted, “Kid!…”
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The waking world, on the other hand, was proving to be far more difficult a realm to defend. The Nightmare King no longer had to rely so much on getting inside Dustin’s head as he did projecting outside of it, thereby rendering the genius’s maelstrom of thoughts and memories as just a means of fodder. Still images would appear out of the corner of Dustin’s vision, trailing him like wispy Shades on the prowl, only to disappear as soon as he turned around.
Paranoia was nothing new to this man. But by this point it was just becoming ridiculous.
It didn’t help when, while pacing briskly through the halls, Dustin saw the strange bird-child from the gathering disappear through a wavering portal of some sort in front of his eyes. Convinced that something very wrong was going on here, the scruffy man followed him inside.
The walls were closing in…
“Hey!” Dustin called gruffly, his breathing suddenly constricted, “Kid!…”