"Perhaps nothing," says Laertes hastily. "She claims that she is a kind of constable of stories, tasked with returning characters to the tales from which they came--but she has done nothing of the kind here, nor even tried to enforce the laws of her world, and so I must wonder if she is being truthful. And some friends of mine have been plagued by nightmares that feel as though they were sent by some outside force, and those few here have the power to compel dreams have one by one been discarded as suspects. If she has power over dreams, she may have other powers of the mind--and if she is not truthful about herself and her origins, I would know all I can of the extent of her abilities. If she is a goddess, I fear she is beyond our reach."
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