The Waking Nightmare

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The name is Isabella. Yeah. -That- Isabella. In the dream, we were at The Academy in Kingsward, surrounded by militia. They just stood there and did nothing as she was murdered. I know it's not much to go on, but I have the same sense of dread surrounding it that I did with Sylver. And that voice. He was there too, saying her name, over and over again. I'll meet you at The Academy. We'll start our search there. I hope we aren't too late...

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The nightmares clear from my thoughts, but hang like cobwebs at the distant corners of my mind. I recall something... whispered by the water. No... whispered by the Shadow in the water! The Shadow in the Deep, [%NAME]. It moves with a sinister purpose. This masked man was one of its agents. One of many. One of The Dream Coven. I can still recall fleeting details. Places. Faces. Names... Merkur... Arlan Merkur!