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    Attraction to Dream of the Endless comes to Hob in a form of a slow, simmering fire. At times it burns brighter, other times it calms until it’s barely noticeable. It never goes away fully, partially because Hob doesn’t want it to.

    His companion is the embodiment of hope and dreaming. It would be sacrilege to give up hope in being wanted by him.

     

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    Death comes for a raven, and finds her brother. He doesn't ask her for help, but prevents her possible entrapment, so she finds Hob Gadling and suggests he do something about the situation at hand.
    Cue a one man resque mission in 1926, which leads to dozens of years of platonic, yet vaguely romantic dating both in the waking world and in the Dreaming.

    Now with illustrations in the second chapter!

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    16 Mar 2024

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    Peter disappears. Thomas gets him back.

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    09 Mar 2024

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    "He does not wish your friendship, Hob Gadling. He wishes to bed you."

    "He—" Hob cuts himself off, head tilting slightly like the new information needs just a second to process. Dream wonders when he began to find this kind of confusion more endearing than a test of his patience.

    In which Dream begins to feel things and it goes about as well as you would expect.

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    04 Mar 2024

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    “Kneel,” said Dream.

    Hob knelt before him. Dream pressed his own thumb to his lips and wet it. He took Hob’s chin in the other hand and tilted his face up. “Some do this with ash. To acknowledge death. Mortality. It would not befit you,” he said, and smudged his wet thumb in a sign upon Hob’s forehead. “Now you wear my mark,” he said.

    “I have always worn your mark, my Lord,” said Hob.

    “Then remember you are mine and to me you shall return,” Dream said.

    On the look of stained glass, the smell of churches, the taste of your friend’s mouth, and the feeling of receiving a sacrament several centuries overdue. Or: the entirely accidental but inevitable divinity of Hob's devotion.

    AMAZING art by fishydwarrows!

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    02 Mar 2024

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    There is a new temple in London.

    This is not so unusual. Dream has been…away, as his sister says, for over a century. Even had he not been, he does not map the Waking so thoroughly as to always see these things when they start. Places of love, of devotion, spring up from time to time. He leaves them be; they are not, generally speaking, his business.

    What is unusual is that this one is shaped like a pub, and it is very much his business.

    Dream contemplates The New Inn as he approaches.

    Hob’s actions while Dream is away have consequences neither of them anticipated.

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    27 Feb 2024