#I started writing this back in mid-August because I’d finished reading all the rescue fics and still needed more

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Chapters: 10/10 Fandom: The Sandman (TV 2022) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Dream of the Endless | Morpheus/Hob Gadling, Dream of the Endless/Hob Gadling Characters: Hob Gadling, Dream of the Endless | Morpheus, Roderick Burgess, Alexander Burgess, Matthew the Raven, Death of the Endless, Paul McGuire (The Sandman) Additional Tags: Hob Gadling Saves Dream of the Endless | Morpheus from Roderick Burgess, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Torture, Hurt/Comfort, Friends to Lovers, Slow Burn, Angst with a Happy Ending, fluff in later chapters, Everyone Needs A Hug, or a psychologist, but what they actually do is talk to each other about everything but their recent trauma, Lucid Dreaming, or at least the very basics of it, Complete, as in it has an ending and doesn’t call for a sequel, Mostly betaed

  Summary:

1989. As Hob waits for his Stranger, a member of the Order of Ancient Mysteries comes into the White Horse looking for the man who meets someone there every hundred years.

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Or: a kidnapping, torture, a fishbowl break, overdue conversations, feeding the birds and falling in love.