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[music]

Hi, I'm archaeologist Josh Gates

and our team is here investigating rumors

that somehow an artifact from the Assyrian Empire

from a 1000 BCE wound up buried here

in the small German village of Melk, but how?

Well, we must remember that the--oh.

Uh, Silas, should we start again?

- SILAS: We'll cut around it. - Okay.

So why this village?

Well, the artifacts that we are pursuing

is reportedly related to dreams and sleep.

And here in the village of Melk, so the legend goes,

"No one has ever had a dream."

And cut! Okay, spooky stuff.

You guys ready to head into the basement?

What's up?

The crew came in last night to prep.

We all slept at the inn and none of us had a dream.

None of us.

Come on.

[music]

Okay, what have we got?

- This site was discovered when? - SILAS: Two weeks ago.

JOSH GATES: And we're the first team

- to come down here? - SILAS: Yeah.

GATES: Wow.

Look at this.

This is Akkadian, old Assyrian,

but with Latin mixed in,

which makes no sense.

"Beware the walker of the night.

"He that eats--" no, devours.

"He that devours souls

"is bound in four..."

parts?

Rings?

Huh. And these-- these stones are different.

Silas, are you getting this?

Let's roll on this. This is great.

[music]

No! Do not open the--mmm.

[creature growling]

[theme music]

[Vikram Chamberlain vocalizing]

- Not where this goes. - What are you doing?

Sorting out the odds and ends closet. You?

- Same. - Yeah?

- Nothing. - Oh.

Guys, Charlie's okay?

Um, she's carrying an armful of deadly weapons.

She's in her happy place. Hmm?

No, no, that is for my stack of supposition.

Do you want help with this or not?

Actually, no.

I gave you something to do because you're all tense.

- Who seems tense? - Vik.

You, kind of.

That's crazy. I have axes.

Axes are my happy place.

VIKRAM: Hmph. Told you.

I think the toy phone case was hard on her and...

Oh, we gotta respect her space.

Well, no, sometimes you have to ask questions,

you know, when people aren't comfortable bringing up...

Never mind. I've got work to do.

Oh, man, we screwed that up.

Do you think Lysa was talking about Charlie

when actually she wanted us to ask about her?

Ask her about how she feels seeing her dead parents?

Yeah, pretty much. Hey, Charlie--

CHARLIE CORNWALL: I said I was fine.

Much like you've been unsettled

since you saw your long-lost love

who came to hate you.

Oh, because you seeing Anya had no effect on you.

Absolutely not! Hmm.

We may be, in parlance of your internet, "hot messes."

Oh, man, we need Mrs. Astolat back.

We're way too emotionally entangled.

She was always a good outside voice.

She won't be back until she finds Merlin.

No, we have to figure this out ourselves.

[phone vibrating and ringing]

VIKRAM: Speaking of, she's calling.

- She's calling me too. - Mrs. Astolat?

- [phone ringing simultaneously] - CHARLIE: Why would she call

all of our phones at the same time?

[sparks crackling]

- Ow! - Oh, man, I just paid this off.

[music]

CHARLIE: Merlin.

So much for never using magic again.

The use of magic here is completely justified.

There was no other way to contact you to save her.

- To save who? - Ms. Astolat.

I need you to come here and save Ms. Astolat.

[music]

CHARLIE: If this is some sort of trick...

LYSA PASCAL: Oh, my God!

She's alive, but a really slow pulse.

What?

MERLIN: They are asleep.

Right up to the historical borders of this town, Melk.

You're not affected.

Convenient.

Always so suspicious.

A spell, regardless of how powerful, is nothing

compared to what I once contained.

Mrs. Astolat?

Indeed. Mrs. Astolat, please?

[music]

[birds chirping]

LYSA: Mrs. A?

CHARLIE: Oh, my God.

I found her like that.

She must have arrived in town after me.

Why are you in this town?

I was running from her. I was on the train,

saw the name of the village, and remembered an odd legend

about this place even back in my day.

Curiosity got the better of me.

She's asleep too.

Yes. That's the problem.

Immortals don't sleep.

They are immortal to a certain extent

because their force of will

overrides the rules of the universe.

Their perception defines their reality.

And once they stop perceiving--

The rules kick in.

The universal observer is back in charge.

The universal observer?

Bishop Berkely, the Enlightenment empiricist?

- Only me. - You're saying

the years she's ignored will catch up with her,

that the centuries will consume her.

- Or just wake them up. - I've already tried that.

This slumber is supernatural.

So, we discover what's causing it

and stop it.

We are not going to lose Mrs. Astolat.

[creature growling]

[music]

Stripping cars is more of my brother's thing,

- but here you go. - You know, one day

we're really gonna have to talk about your family.

MERLIN: We searched the town hall and that church,

found no records that could explain the curse.

How are the sleepers?

Well, in an ideal situation,

we would have a wireless network rigged up

to monitor everybody, but...

Somebody fried our phones.

- Hmm. - Yeah. Luckily, though,

I was able to recover mine enough to use a medical app.

Okay. So in ordinary sleep, we're in REM state,

which is like a dream sleep 20% of the time.

But not only are all of these people,

including Mrs. Astolat,

locked in dream sleep,

but they're also all in sync.

Okay. Listen to the brainwaves.

[scanner beeping]

- In synced maybe means linked. - Uh-huh.

Like they're all having the same dream.

Or making the same dream.

As you know, I spent my youth abroad in India, Africa,

and what you now call the Middle East.

There were many mystical traditions

in which a group of individual sleepers

would combine their energy

to create a single shared dreamscape.

So they're all one big dream generator?

- VIKRAM: Uh-hmm. - Or battery?

And we dare not break Elaine's connection to the rest.

It could be fatal to her.

So I think I could wake them,

but it's not as simple as any sound.

The trick is, you generate a tone

that matches this, sync it up, and then disrupt it.

We could use the radios from the cars

parked around town and--

no, I need a transmitter, so...

Oh, I saw a radio station at the edge of town

- when I was stripping cars. - Perfect.

Hey. Just did recon,

found something that doesn't belong.

Rental van, Berlin registration

outside a construction site.

Right. Well, we shall investigate.

I'll get Lysa to the radio station.

Oh, you?

- Peace to you too. - [scoffs]

Starting to like me.

[chuckles]

Come on.

[music]

[Charlie sighs]

- [creature growling] - Charlie!

CHARLIE: What?

[speaks indistinctly]

There's a weird shape in the reflection.

Big red eyes, general spooky appearance.

CHARLIE: Is it spooky or evil?

Oh, I would say 30% spooky and like 70% evil.

[drone buzzing]

It's a drone. Looks high-end military.

- [drone whizzing by] - You should go after it.

No, I'm not gonna leave you.

No, whoever is flying that, that means they're awake.

Maybe they did this or they're gonna help us.

Either way, we have to find out.

It's okay. I'll be careful. Go.

Okay.

The radio station is four blocks that way,

- right on the edge of town. - Uh-hmm.

Okay. Just look for the giant antenna.

Okay.

Go be a science hero.

Science hero.

Hell yeah.

[drone buzzing]

GATES: Be careful. I don't think it's attached,

but we have to make sure we don't damage

- what's behind it. - CONNOR GREEN: Josh Gates?

Dr. Green? Connor? Hey.

I heard you were out of the game.

- This is my director, Silas. - CONNOR: Nice to meet you.

- Hey, nice to meet you. - This is my associate,

Vikram Chamberlain, and Merv...Lin.

Merv Lin, this is Josh Gates. Very distinguished archeologist.

We used to work together before I entered

the artifact retrieval sector.

SILAS: Is it safe to leave?

We were working out here when everyone passed out,

so we figured the stone wall shielded us somehow.

I believe what you've discovered

is the key to what happened above.

Vikram, you recognize these magical configurations?

Hmm, an odd combination of binding.

And a curse within a curse?

Ah, a compulsion spell.

- Uh-hmm. - GATES: I'm sorry.

A magic spell?

- Yes. - Oh, no.

What they mean is the people who made it

would've considered it magic.

Not us. That would be crazy.

Could you excuse us, please?

Yeah, Josh is kind of a big deal

and he really used to respect my work.

So, could we maybe cool it with like the magic a little?

Connor, are you embarrassed by us?

No. No. Never.

Come on. You can never embarrass me.

Just please be as cool as a thousand-year-old wizard

and a 1800s Librarian can be.

You spotted that the stone is opus caementicium?

At first, I thought it was a hoax, but yes.

I think we've both seen enough pozzolanic ash

- to know the real deal. - [laughter]

[laughing]

Ash.

Okay. The stone continues behind the facade.

In fact, I think there's artwork behind here.

You see this?

Oh.

Uh-huh.

Should we?

[grunts]

[creature growling]

[music]

SILAS: What the hell is that?

That...is a demon.

[music]

- [gasps] - [gasps]

Sorry. It's okay. I'm here to help.

- [speaking Polish] - Hmm, I--sorry,

I can speak a bit of French, maybe some German.

But what is that? Is that Polish?

[speaking Polish]

"Potwór" Huh, monster. That is so weird.

I just realized I know monster in like 20 different languages.

- [creature growling] - [Lysa gasps]

Come on.

[creature growling]

[loud banging]

Okay. Uh, give me that wiring.

Okay, come on.

[panting]

- Lysa. - Marzenie.

So Marzenie,

why are you not asleep?

Um...

LYSA: You.

Mountain? Walk?

You're on a hike outside of town.

Why are you here?

Where are you going? Wait, wait.

[marker squeaking]

[speaking Polish]

Hmm.

My family.

Me.

We're gonna save everyone.

- [loud banging] - Oh, come on.

[creature growling]

Okay.

I'm gonna science hero the heck out of this.

Real soon.

[radio beeping, static]

[music]

[drone buzzing]

[gun cocks]

[music]

[creature growling]

The demon Alu, correct?

Evil Assyrian sleep demon.

That's right. According to legend,

puts his victims into comas

and tortures them in their dreams.

A malevolent creature

who always wanted to escape the dream realm.

Hmm. Legend has it if enough people

dream about him at the same time,

he will manifest in the waking world.

And woe be to us.

- Whoa. - Indeed. Woe.

VIKRAM: And that is Reverie's Torque.

Alu's cultists built that artifact

to control the sleep and dreams of others.

According to the Library, it was broken up.

Its pieces hidden.

The Library of...

The Library.

The Library of the Library?

Guys, come.

- Are we being cool? - Hmm.

Oh, yeah. Killing it.

So, want to bet that one of those pieces was buried here,

back when this was a remote Roman outpost?

So, I stay, open the vault, get that first piece.

You go find the other pieces.

Ah, see, you are embarrassed by us.

It's just--

it's just nice to be around academics again, you know.

I thought my reputation was...

It's just nice.

Come.

[music]

[birds chirping]

[speaking German]

[speaking German]

The Guardian?

For the Librarians in Europe?

[scoffs]

I'm Captain Traum, of EDIE.

How do you know about the Library?

The Americans have DOSA, yes?

The Department for Statistical Anomalies?

To deal with magic in secret?

We're EDIE,

the European Department of Inexplicable Events.

- We also deal in magic. - We should coordinate.

My team is in town working on a solution.

What?

CAPTAIN TRAUM: The effect is spreading.

We had to move a perimeter back three times.

We have report of the sleeping effect

in five more towns.

Even more reason to work together.

DOSA studies events.

We have a more proactive mandate.

CHARLIE: Hmm, that's a targeting computer.

And it's counting down. You launched a missile?

We were ordered to destroy the source of the effect.

The source is in that town. Now we have to move out

of the blast radius before impact.

There are hundreds of innocent lives.

And millions more at stake.

- I'm sorry, but... - [groans]

[grunting]

[grunts]

- [vehicle engine revving] - [gunshots]

Let's go! Go, go, go!

[speaking German]

[vehicle engine revving]

Hmm.

Frequency modulator.

This is gonna, uh... [yawns]

wake everyone up, I think.

Unfortunately, we have to sneak back

to the broadcasting booth to get the signal out.

It's quieted down. So, now's our chance.

Ready?

Okay.

[music]

[creature growls]

This is not good.

Okay.

We're just gonna be really, really quiet

and everything's gonna be okay.

[cell phone rings]

- Seriously? - [creature growls]

Come on.

Come on, come on, come on.

Hey, Charlie. Little busy.

[gunfire]

CHARLIE: Work faster, Lysa.

- There's a missile incoming. - [creature growls]

- What's that noise? - [Marzenie whines]

Oh, well, you know, just a giant monster.

I'm a little bit more concerned about the missile.

[gunfire]

I have the targeting computer

but I can't countermand the launch.

- But... - [gunfire]

But if you wake everyone up, they'll call it off.

Okay. So I should definitely go do that.

[gunfire]

You know, maybe you can rewire this thing.

- Give me control. - [gunfire]

- [mirror shatters] - You know, I'll pick you up.

- [gunfire] - Okay.

- [door bangs] - God. Okay.

So I just have to wear this...

into that.

- [door bangs] - [creature roaring]

[music]

- You see the stones? - Yes.

Imported from Syria.

Buried at intervals.

According to the map,

these streets are laid out in a binding circle.

Revelatum.

[music]

Names, of course.

Because the legend is, no one in Melk can ever dream.

That's because those dreams would give Alu power.

A town without dreams

is a perfect trap for a nightmare demon.

When we find Reverie's Torque,

you must use it to wake these people.

Once it is rebuilt, Alu will try to seize control.

If you don't control it, he will.

The temptation would be too great.

Which is why I cannot be the one.

Vikram, I only tasted the magic of the bracelets.

That Torque?

I would drink it dry.

I couldn't help myself.

But you...

Vikram, why can you not see it?

You are the right man,

the right time to use magic the right way.

You're casting me as your new Arthur.

Better Arthur.

If you could control people's dreams,

think of the good you could inspire.

Think of the hate you could stop.

Dream logic transcends time and space.

Is there nowhere, there's no time you would go?

[music]

Well... [clears throat]

I will consider it.

CONNOR: Yeah. Yeah.

This pattern...

is the same magical notation

as the Seal of Archimedes.

The Seal of Archimedes was a fake.

You don't actually believe this is some kind--

[music]

Silas, tell me you're filming this.

Oh, yeah, we're rolling.

Some kind of primitive magnets.

No, sorry.

That's the Reverie's Torque.

- That's magic. - You sound crazy.

You're looking at a floating piece of magical artifact,

and I'm the problem?

GATES: I don't know what this trick is,

but it's a legend about a sleep demon.

In a town where everybody suddenly fell asleep.

Not so much of a legend right now.

So the stories were true.

The rumors you'd gone off the deep end,

joined the conspiracy nuts.

Demon hunting and magic artifacts.

Silas, still rolling?

We're getting it all.

I'll make sure everybody knows

that Dr. Connor Green has lost

- his damn mind. - [grunts]

- GATES: Get him out of here! - CONNOR: No! No!

- Get him out of here. - I need that piece, Josh.

- We have serious work to do. - We need that piece.

You don't know what you're doing.

[gunfire]

[speaking German]

[gunfire]

[speaking German]

[music]

Sorry.

Right.

This is the spot.

[music]

Mrs. Astolat.

You'd still hesitate to use Reverie's Torque, Vikram?

To save her?

To save all of them?

[cell phone rings]

VIKRAM: Ah, Connor.

CONNOR: They kicked me out.

They called me everything I always feared.

Connor, you are right.

- They are wrong. - It's true.

I can't get the piece of the Torque.

VIKRAM: Yes. Yes, you can.

Now, tell me the pattern from the vault.

Uh, first, then third,

fifth, then second, then fourth.

Excellent.

Now Connor, don't forget,

you were right.

Now get that piece.

- [phone line beeping] - [music]

Huh. How anti-climactic.

[music]

Merlin.

- Bravo. - [cell phone rings]

- Lysa. - [door banging]

- VIKRAM: How are you faring? - Well, I haven't even wired in

my frequency modulator yet,

but... [panting]

Vikram, I can't do this.

She's gonna lose her family.

VIKRAM: Lysa,

your mind has never failed us.

- [phone line beeping] - If--hold on.

I have Charlie on the other line.

- Wait. No-- - Charlie.

[vehicle engine hissing]

[music]

Sir, there's a missile incoming.

A missile? How are these calls getting worse?

CHARLIE: I'm going to have to beat up about

four highly-trained NATO soldiers

and steal their jeep.

Then I can pick you up

and we can get out of town together.

- Where are you? - Uh, the village square.

No.

Lysa's at the radio station.

Tell me Connor's with you.

He's back at the inn.

That's a triangle.

You're all five minutes apart.

I can only save one of you.

I have to choose.

- [music] - [radio beeping]

- [radio beeping] - [music]

[creature growling]

- Get him out of here! - CONNOR: No!

GATES: Get him out of here!

[music]

- [creature growling] - [Marzenie screams]

- [door bashing] - CONNOR: We need that piece!

You don't know what you're doing!

- [door bashing] - [screams]

[creature roaring]

- CHARLIE: Sir? - Vikram,

we must reassemble the Torque.

The others will fail. We must put together the pieces.

- How did they call me? - CHARLIE: Sir?

Our phones do not work.

- [sparks crackling] - Ow!

Somebody fried our phones.

Ah, yes!

Sometimes, dreams can reveal the truth reality obscures.

The rage demon.

Remember when we confessed our fears?

I'd rather not. It was all a bit maudlin.

Charlie's was that one day she'd have to choose

which one of us to save.

Connor's with a man that he respects,

- calling his sanity into doubt. - None of this matters.

If the missile hits, were all about to die.

Not Lysa, she's not in the village.

She said something about losing a family.

It's their fears.

It's their nightmares.

Merlin, we have been asleep since we got here.

[music]

Oh, dear.

Vikram, your hand.

Now, that is clever.

[exhales] Hmm.

They wouldn't dare hide pieces

of the Torque in the real world

where Alu's cultists could find them.

But hide them inside dreams.

And then curse the town to never dream.

Thus, sealing them away forever.

That fellow Gates broke the seal,

so now they can sleep and dream.

Giving Alu a way into dream space

so he could hunt for the missing pieces.

How are you able to see outside dreams?

Hmm. My training in India.

Wait.

We are in one shared dream

between all the sleepers, yes?

- Hmm. - Connor, Lysa, Charlie,

they are in their own nightmare.

But those nightmares are all connected.

Yes, that's it.

I remember a technique I was taught

by a magician in Calcutta.

I think I can hop into Charlie's nightmare.

[music]

Now hold on there.

Am I drunk?

I'm Captain Traum of EDIE.

If you move, we'll shoot you.

Oh, shut up.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

God, I look like Byron's underwear drawer.

Charlie!

Sir?

Ah, so, in your subconscious,

I am a drunken fop?

- No. - We have to get out of here.

The missile will kill us.

Yes, it might.

It's her nightmare.

[chuckles] We could actually die.

Sir, we are out of time.

No, we are not.

Dream my logic.

Toss me that.

[music]

[retches]

- Ugh. - [groans]

[retches]

Make it stop!

Right.

I'm going.

Oh, oh, that hurts.

- Vikram? - Lysa. Yes.

I'm dream-hopping.

Change of plan. Here.

[grunts] Use what you built earlier,

override the missile, send a self-destruct.

- [door banging] - [creature growling]

I don't know if I can do that.

- Oh, yes, you can. - LYSA: Okay.

You can fix Charlie's nightmare because it's not yours.

But we need to hurry.

- [door banging] - [creature growling]

[groans] Oh, hello, young lady.

[creature growling]

How would you like a hard candy?

- Hmm? - Oh, come on!

- Done. - Let's go!

[speaking Polish]

[speaking Polish]

- Marzenie. - Marzenie.

Well, let's get out of here, shall we?

Okay.

VIKRAM: But first,

I need to go to the bath.

[music]

[speaking Polish]

Ahh!

- [Lysa chuckles] - Yes, yes, very nice.

No more missile.

Vikram, why are you old?

Because I am using your subconscious mind

to be here.

And apparently, this is how you see me.

- Huh. - Care to explain?

I'm sure it's out of love.

Hmm, right.

I need to go and visit Connor in his dream.

But when I get back, you're so grounded.

Everybody's lives depend on you giving me that piece.

I'm not gonna hand this artifact over based on some crazy theory.

It's not a crazy theory.

[sighs]

Thank you, Connor.

Nice to know you perceive me as I am.

Wait a minute, how'd you do that?

Oh, don't worry about that.

I'm here to tell you

that Connor Green is right.

- About? - Everything.

His encyclopedic knowledge of history,

combined with his newfound expertise of the occult

make him one of the rarest brains in the world.

- [chuckles] - CONNOR: Wow.

Thank you very much, Vikram.

Oh, I've lost count the number of times

we've relied on Connor Green's brilliance.

He's probably a better Librarian than I am--

oh, my word, I get it now!

Really, Connor? Really?

In your dream, I'm your...

sidekick?

No. Pfft!

I mean, I'd say "boon companion"?

Ha!

- What? - [grunts]

Oh, you people. Still?

Until the situation is resolved, I'm in command.

You have to listen.

Is he shorter?

[ominous laughter]

VIKRAM: Oh, dear, no.

I have just realized that we have made

a terrible mistake.

We have fallen right into Alu's trap.

[ominous laughter]

u? Please don't antagonize the giant nightmare demon.

No, no, he knew he could not find the pieces.

So why not use people, hmm,

who are experts at tracking down artifacts?

Librarians.

[sighs] We have been asleep since we got here,

so that he, Alu, could trick us

in searching our dreams for the pieces of the Torque.

[music]

Wait, no, I didn't get a piece, did you?

Dream logic.

The piece is important,

and so it took the form of the most important part

of your nightmares.

For you, Charlie, it was the targeting computer.

And the frequency modulator

that you so desperately improvised, Lysa.

[music]

But they were lost. We were gonna die in our dream.

So he would have fished it from the wreckage of your minds.

After all, Alu has been here the whole time.

"Traum" in German is dream, is it not?

In Polish, "Marzenia" is...

Also dream.

That's why you were such a jerk.

You're not Josh Gates. You're a nightmare.

[groans] Oh. Ah.

Actually, no. Sorry. It was that fellow.

Oh, wow. Oh, wow.

Oh, my God. I'm so sorry.

What is happening?

No.

I don't think so.

Vikram, she's running out of time.

You found the Torque.

Use it.

Banish the demon.

I mustn't.

If you don't use it, Alu will take it.

He will walk the world

and consume the dreams of the living.

Vikram, it is your destiny.

[music]

[ominous laughter]

[music]

[ominous laughter]

[music]

You!

What have you done?

Nothing.

One of the most powerful artifacts

in human history and whose hands is it in?

The Librarians. Not mine.

I turned down the chance to use magic,

but he used it and saved everyone.

Including you.

Charlie, Lysa, Connor, go check the sleepers.

See if anyone else needs aid.

Sir, are you sure?

I'll check on Gates.

You control the dreams of all men.

You can be the new Arthur.

You can build a Golden Age.

They're just dreams.

All change begins

when someone dreams a new reality.

Hmm, to create a new world

without fear, without hate.

Yes, that would be incredible.

The only problem is, I know it's a lie.

Alu didn't trick us here.

You did, Merlin.

Well done.

[music]

so he could not recruit us

to find pieces of the Torque hidden in dreams.

Oh, come, come.

Library is ancient. He could very easily--

No, Merlin, I know you arranged all of this,

to put this power in my hands.

But I will not be your new Arthur.

The world is in pain.

With that artifact, you could save millions.

Millions.

You could be a god.

A god?

I would be all powerful and alone.

You're not handing me a dream, Merlin.

You're asking me to live my nightmare.

Come with us, of your own free will.

What are you doing?

- His thirst for magic... - Came about

because I woke up the Annex.

I did.

He only used magic when you kidnapped him.

And we dragged him along on our quest

to retrieve the Gemini bracelets.

He refused the power of the Torque.

He's trying, Elaine.

It has to count for something.

And I do not know if we can help you,

but it is our responsibility to try.

[music]

Connor Green?

Josh Gates.

Hey, how are you holding up?

Um, what happened?

Gas leak. Yeah, whole town was affected.

Yeah.

Hey, you know, I heard some

crazy rumors about you.

Conspiracy stuff.

Oh?

But then I ran into Dr. Newman, Simone,

and she told me it was all just a cover

for your new intelligence job,

stopping the black market artifacts trade.

Close enough.

But you should get some rest.

Yeah.

Hey,

I had the weirdest dream. Uh...

Anyway, good seeing you, Dr. Green.

Good to be seen.

As Dr. Green.

- [scanner beeping] - Okay.

I have a baseline of your magic levels.

I just have to go check my calculations.

Thank you.

No.

No, thank him.

I'm still pretty mad about the whole nightmare thing.

Oh, and the pretending to be me thing.

And also, you constantly trying to escape thing.

- I think that's fair. - Uh-hmm.

So, uh, that version of you in my dream?

You mean the secret image of me in your head

as a drunken dandy, yes?

Yeah. Yeah, it's probably the nightmare version of you.

Uh-hmm.

Like, Vikram Chamberlain

is so dependable.

It'd be a nightmare if you weren't.

Lysa Pascal.

Care to explain?

Hey, I was very stressed and I conjured up

the most comforting version of you.

And what is more comforting than a Grampy?

A Pop-pop.

We agreed to never use those words.

Hey, hey, hey, we were best buds in my dream.

I was your sidekick.

No, no, no, not sidekick. A hype man.

And the relationship between headliner

and a hype man is very sacred.

Uh-hmm. And I suppose

I was an amusing figure in your dream.

No, you weren't in my dream at all.

- It was a delight. - Hmm.

Hmm, I am still the master of Reverie's Torque.

Perhaps I should use it to send us back

into a shared dream so you can see

how all of you unconsciously perceive each other.

- No, thank you. - Oh, no, I don't think that's--

- [artifact humming] - [woman chuckles]

[indistinct chatter]

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Merlin, no.

I understand you are not worthy.

I've spent my entire life looking for men who are worthy.

The world has collapsed beyond salvation.

I have to go back and save it

at a time where it can still be saved.

I can absorb magic.

And I can train the power of Reverie's Torque

and go back to where it all went wrong.

No.

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