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    This story takes place in the waking world, or as mortals insist on calling it… the real world, as if the other realms hold no importance in their daily lives, in their choices, in their dreams.
    To mortals and humans in particular the realms other than theirs are of no concern to them, their passage through the landscape of Grey Realm do not affect them, don't define them.
    As if what happens to them, in them does not matter.
    Black Winged Death was trapped in this version of All Seeing Destiny’s book.
    Her wings are bound and the road to the Sunless Lands is concealed from her eyes, her Ankh stolen.

    She was alone and cold, even if time itself wouldn't bring her to madness, the silence and solitude hurt.

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    Lucienne is stuck in the mourning stage after Morpheus takes Death’s hand.

    It doesn’t help that there is a new Dream, and she doesn’t know how to feel about it.

    Maybe something new can bloom between the new Dream and his trusty Librarian.

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    Alara Thorne awakens from a nightmare with a burn mark on her collarbone – and dies before she can understand what it means.

    But death is not the end for the daughter of a forgotten muse and a rogue god. Her soul wanders between realms, lost in the dreams of others, until she stumbles upon the heart of Desire's realm. The strange girl intrigues Desire, who becomes obsessed with her, unable to forget the one who should not exist. After the unsuccessful search, Desire turns to the one who has power over dreams and who is the only way to find the girl who only exists in dreams: Morpheus.

    Alara's body is buried, but her mind lives on. Her presence begins to change the fabric of the Dreaming. And as the mystery of her death – and her true nature – unfolds, the lines between dream and desire blur.

    Two Endless.
    A soul trapped between them.
    A love that is worth more than reality.

    A slow-burning romance filled with danger, mythology, grief, and impossible longing.
    And at the end… maybe even happiness.

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    Spoilers for sandman season 2!!!!

    Based on sandman season 2 but when Morpheus dies and Daniel becomes the new dream instead of him staying dead he is given a second chance and is re-born as a mortal, this follows a 20 year old Morpheus working a shitty job and just trying to get by but he's continually plagued by beings from his past who can't quiet remember but his chest aches for them

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    Before the stars learned how to shine, before Nada, before history had a name, Lord Morpheus was in love. With a mortal woman, out of all people. And like all mortal things, she was lost. To time. To pride. To rules older than gods.

    Now, she walks the world again.

    Her presence threads through the Dreaming like a forgotten chord, and as her memories resurface, the realm begins to fracture around her. Dream feels it with every shift: the slow unraveling of a world he once ruled, and the return of a love he cannot contain.

    So the question is no longer if he will break the rules.
    It’s when.

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    It begins with a song followed by silence.
    With a father who feared grief more than death, and a son who suffered because of it.

    Centuries later, in a London tavern in 1889, two strangers meet again: Dream, endless, unknowable and Hob Gadling: an immortal man, impossibly hopeful. Both of them stubborn. Both of them aching for something they can’t quite name.

    What begins as curiosity slowly becomes something deeper: a love that stretches through time. Through change. Through laughter and loss, through the building of a family and the beauty of choosing to live fully.

    This is the story of Morpheus and Hob, of dreams and devotion, of quiet conversations and fierce promises, of love blooming in the cracks left by sorrow.

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    Morpheus and Death spoil Lucienne.

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    The water may have washed away the blood from his hands, and while he may have not dreamed himself, he can see the blood every time he gazed at his hands or lost himself in the vast cosmos of his mind.

    After centuries of pain and torment, he freed his son but set in motion the ending of something but the beginning of something else.

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    📝 Aziraphale and Crowley (Good Omens) have just been assigned as the personal “angel and demon on the shoulder” of one Neal Caffrey (White Collar), an infamous white-collar criminal and con man who recently died under suspicious circumstances. With a question mark for an Afterlife assignment (his soul was marked neither for Heaven nor Hell), Neal has been sent to The Dreaming (The Sandman) as a minor Arcana to determine his fate. Being their first time meeting, sparks immediately fly between Aziraphale and Crowley, and their flirtatious banter distracts them from being effective in their celestial roles of mentorship. Unable to kick his old criminal habits, Neal uses this opportunity in the Dreaming to “heist” the dreams of FBI Special Agent Peter Burke to help him solve Neal’s murder in the Waking World. Hilarity, drama, and (possibly) romance ensues.

    🧚 This fic is a part of the Good Omens Fairy Tale Bang. As our story is set in the world of The Sandman, it is more of a dark fairy tale than the polished vibe you might expect. The mood overall is, however, very light and comedic.

    ⚠️ See story notes for more details on rating/content/triggers.

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    It feels strangely vulnerable to have Mazikeen in her library for the first time, vulnerable in a way that sharing her body with the demon never has felt. But perhaps that shouldn’t come as a surprise. In a fundamental way, Lucienne’s library is far more the host to her soul than her four-limbed form is.

     

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    An interlude.

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    Lucienne feels helpless in the face of the conflict between Oneiros and Murphy. She finds that she does have one weapon to hand.

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    Lucienne is of the Dreaming. She understands better than almost anyone the expanse of what may be real or unreal. But as she walks slowly through the shelves of her newly restored library, she still struggles to believe that this is the truth. That after so many years, she is once again treading the well loved passageways in the place she has poured her soul into for longer than mortal mind can grasp.

     

    The books came back.

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    How did Jessamy end up a Raven, anyway?

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    The Doctor is a child trapped in a nightmare. Can Gault save them? And can Lucienne help them find answers to their question?

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    Lucienne and Gault are enjoying a quiet cup of tea in the Library, when they hear a big crash followed by desperate crying. Who could it be?

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    Lucienne stomped through the library, barely containing her anger against Lord Morpheus. She threw herself into her chair, and if she’d had hair she would have been pulling it out as she remembered his callous black and white thinking as he condemned Gault to the darkness. As a punishment. For being kind to that poor boy. Arghhh!

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    Lucienne's been thinking of Morpheus in his cat form as Meowpheus, but what will he think of that nickname when he finds out?

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    How Jessamy Crowe, a 14th century peasant girl, dreamed of a library and its librarian Lucienne, until upon her mortal death became one of Dream's Ravens.

    In 1366, sixteen-year-old Jessamy Crowe and her eleven-year-old brother Simon made a promise to each other in a gap between the sweeping waves of the Black Death – they weren't going to die.

    Jessamy did, in some fashion, both die - and live forever. 

    Title from "On the Wing" by Owl City.

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    The prompt, from Saz (orionsangel86/bluestar86):
    Due to a certain situation involving the key to Hell, the Dreaming is hosting a vast party of Gods and Goddesses, Angels and Demons, and strange beings of Order and Chaos, to name a few.

    Lucienne, being second in command, has been busy making sure everyone is comfortable, putting together the preparations for a successful banquet, and making sure no unwanted guests mess up her precious library.

    Finally the days events have come to an end, and the guests have settled down in their chambers (although Lord Morpheus will be busy throughout the night). Lucienne just wants to put her feet up and read a good book - Rose's latest novel looks quite thrilling! - but her night isn't quite over, as someone has come to visit the library out of hours, and Lucienne is perhaps in for more thrills than just Rose's book!

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    The Agatha Christie unpublished works keep getting turned around, page edges out. Lucienne must get to the bottom of this.

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