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    03 Mar 2024

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    And the man standing next to her –

    Well, he looks exactly what the Devil would look like if he was taking mortal form to tempt sinners: slender as a rail, pale as the moon, dark-haired and dressed all in black, and wearing a huge red ruby on a chain around his neck. Quite frankly, he should make haste to remove it, if he doesn’t want someone else in this roistering shithole to do it for him; it’s worth more than what all the White Horse’s patrons make in a year. Yet for all that, he’s not uncomely, and Hob is not uninterested, or unwilling, if that possibility is on the table. Just to check, he flashes a dazzling smile at the stranger, which is not returned; he is as unreadable as a statue. But he is no statue, he is a man, and his voice is uncommonly deep as he speaks:

    “Did I hear you say,” the pale stranger asks, “that you have no intention of ever dying?”

    Hob Gadling shrugs. No point in denying it.

    “Yeah.”

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    28 Feb 2024

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    Returning to Hob felt like a formality, right until Dream stopped outside the crumpled skeleton of the White Horse Inn.

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    26 Feb 2024

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    The meeting in the pub lasts longer than either of them expect, and Dream lets slip a couple of vague facts that give Hob more information about his friend than the previous six centuries put together. He learns that he’s something of a king (which isn’t a surprise) and that he missed their appointment because he was trapped somewhere (which is). The rest is cryptic and reluctant, but when Dream implies that everyone he’d ever known had either assumed he’d abandoned them or been too busy to come help him well—

    Furious doesn’t quite cover it.

    AKA: What to do when your mysterious friend who might also be a god doesn’t realise they feel betrayed.

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    11 Feb 2024

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    The anthropomorphic personification of dreaming is sitting on his sofa, staring at a sequin cushion in his lap.

    His day could be weirder, but Hob isn't quite sure how.

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    10 Feb 2024