#emery ashworth

[chrancecriber]

Chilltrax (June 18, 2023)

23:56 Il:lo - Ink 23:52 Alampa - Seesaw Season 23:49 Avira & Nicholas Gunn - Sensing You 23:45 Dye O - Simply Be Here 23:45 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Moon Boots 23:41 Tep No - Say What You Wanted 23:37 Mozez & Tim Angrave - Head Full Of Dreams 23:32 Ghenwa Nemnom - Story Of A Battle (Chris Zippel Remix) 23:28 Westseven Feat. Angus Powell - Go Right Through (Sound Quelle Remix) 23:23 Alex Lo Faro - Move With Me 23:19 Armin Van Buuren & Matoma Feat Teddy Swims - Easy To Love 23:16 Cannons - Hurricane 23:13 Flexible Fire - Amatista 23:09 Parra For Cuva - Paspatou 23:09 C H I L L T R A X - Slurry Toh 23:04 Two Lanes - Searching (Exclusive Chilltrax Fixed It! Mix) 23:01 Edapollo - Standing There 22:57 Logic1000 Feat. Big Ever - Natural 22:54 Lp Giobbi Feat. Caroline Byrne - Another Life 22:49 Arley & Sirolf - One Day 22:48 C H I L L T R A X - Escape The Noise 22:45 Jones Meadow - Shackles 22:41 Blonde Maze - Something Familiar 22:35 Maya Jane Coles Feat .chelou - Never Asked For Much 22:32 Heard Right & Fløa - Enough 22:28 53 Thieves - Lyd 22:28 C H I L L T R A X - Valante Io Toh 22:22 Baile & Haulm - Knows No End 22:19 Holen - Healing 22:15 Jos & Eli & Eli & Fur - Riffs Of The Night 22:10 Steven Weston Feat. Tae - Same Dream 22:05 Massane - No Return 22:04 C H I L L T R A X - Cool Refreshed Smooth As Can Be 22:01 Fløa (Floa) - Pictures Of You 21:57 A.m.r & Lumynesynth - Unfinished 21:52 Duckmaw - Distant Worlds 21:48 Farius - A Big Life (Sound Quelle Remix) 21:44 Satin Jackets Feat. Mandy Jones - In This Life 21:44 C H I L L T R A X - World Comes To Chilltrax.com 21:39 Sao Miguel Feat. Sebastian Reynoso - Hope In Balance (Wisternoff-grant Remix) 21:35 Phoenix & Dj Falcon - Winter Solstice (Braxe Falcon Remix) 21:30 Monolink - Take Me Away 21:27 Aftruu - Falling Asleep 21:22 Sons Of Maria - Don't Tell Me I Can't Have It 21:18 Elderbrook - The End 21:14 Sum Wave - Evening Mood 21:09 Alison Goldfrapp - The Beat Divine 21:05 Ben Bohmer Feat. Jonah - Home 21:01 Fabio Vee & Mike D' Jais - Consolation 20:58 Dreem - Miles Away 20:53 Thievery Corporation - Lebanese Blonde 20:53 C H I L L T R A X - Magnifyingglasssogood4u 20:49 Reel People & Paula - Vibe (Moods Remix) 20:46 Giants' Nest - Crema 20:43 Flexible Fire - Marea Turquesa 20:39 Gareth Emery - St Mary's 20:39 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Dzihan 20:34 Chicane & The Mannequin - Summer In E Major 20:29 Two Lanes - Movement 20:25 Attom & Kwesi - Rogue 20:21 Nicholas Gunn & Alina Renae - Angel Eyes 20:16 Vincenzo - You Knew 20:15 C H I L L T R A X - Something I Should Tell You 20:11 Feiertag - Didn't Know Why (You Lost Your Soul) 20:07 Darius Feat. Wayne Snow - Apology 20:03 Arto - Now You're Gone 19:59 Lp Giobbi Feat. Dj Tennis & Joseph Ashworth - All In A Dream 19:55 London Grammar - Non Believer (Groove Armada's Revival Edit) 19:55 C H I L L T R A X - Worldschilloutchannnel Orbit 19:51 Leaving Laurel - The Family We Find 19:46 Lamorn - Olsen After Midnight 19:42 Catching Flies - Daymarks 19:37 Alex V - Cristal Shore 19:37 C H I L L T R A X - Glitchy Toh 19:34 Liz Cass - Blue 19:30 Satin Jackets & Panama - Alive 19:27 Tomb - Unbound 19:21 Morcheeba - Oh Oh Yeah 19:16 False Intentions - Good Liar 19:11 Nils Hoffmann Feat. Julia Church - 9 Days 19:07 Billie Eilish - Everything I Wanted (Aquadrop Remix) 19:02 Fakear - Crystal 18:56 Zero 7 - On My Own 18:56 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Freesound 18:53 Cannons - Loving You 18:49 Phello - Timelapse 18:46 Elderbrook & Tourist - Howl (Chill Mix) 18:42 Evelynka - Letting Go 18:42 C H I L L T R A X - E-chilled-music 18:38 Lar - Collide (Jody Wisternoff & James Grant Remix) 18:34 Teemid - L.a. 18:29 Braxe Falcon - Step By Step (Amtrac Remix) 18:26 Sum Wave - Milkyway 18:22 Embliss & Lumynesynth - Phases Of The Moon 18:21 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Cymbal Roll Bass 18:18 Henry Green - Realign 18:14 Sebastian Davidson - Nomads 18:10 Kelela - Contact 18:07 George Fitzgerald & Syml - Mother 18:01 Marsh - Belle 18:01 C H I L L T R A X - Fresh And Fascinating 17:58 Kx5 & Sofi Tukker - Sacrifice (St Mix) 17:54 Otr Feat. Shallou - Heart 17:49 Blank & Jones - Floatation 17:45 Nightcap - The Two Of Us (We Only Need) 17:40 Dj San & Sebastian Moore - In Your Eyes 17:40 C H I L L T R A X - The Chillout Channel, Chilltrax 17:36 Arto - Para Mi 17:33 Attlas & Jodie Knight - Used To The Silence 17:30 Satin Jackets Feat. Tailor - Relapse 17:27 Dex 1200 - Ongea Nami 17:23 Alex Hook Feat. Rene - You Showed Me 17:18 Nicholas Gunn Feat. Chris Howard - Thought Of You 17:12 Electronic Bodyguards - Stronger (Pete Herbert Remix) 17:08 Eli & Fur - Better In The Dark 17:03 Parra For Cuva Feat. Kyson & Beau Diako - Ordel 16:59 Sg Lewis - Lifetime 16:56 Attom - Where Are We Going 16:51 Massive Attack Feat. Hope Sandoval - The Spoils 16:50 C H I L L T R A X - R.i.p. John Hurt 16:47 Jan Blomqvist - Carry On (Earthlife Remix) 16:42 Mango - Skyline 16:38 Holen - Breathe 16:35 Twoworldsapart & Panuma & Nina Carr - Slippin' 16:35 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Moon Boots 16:31 Mozez & Tim Angrave - Head Full Of Dreams 16:28 Finding Mero - In Loving Memories 16:24 Melosense - Can't Replace You 16:20 Sons Of Maria - It Takes So Long 16:15 Vincenzo - Chroma Rush 16:15 C H I L L T R A X - Jimpster 1 16:11 Elderbrook - Wasted On You 16:07 Indigo Eyes Feat. Kehina - All Over Again (Remix) 16:02 Il:lo - Cynnes 15:58 Royksopp Feat. Astrid S - Just Wanted To Know 15:53 Lane 8 Feat. Lulu James - Loving You (Moon Boots Remix) 15:52 C H I L L T R A X - Escape 2 Music 15:49 Giants' Nest - Heart Void 15:45 Nuage Feat. Gus - The Place We Know 15:41 Washed Out - Too Late 15:38 Dye O - Simply Be Here 15:38 C H I L L T R A X - Slurry Toh 15:34 Flume Feat. Emma Louise - Hollow (Logic1000 Remix) 15:28 Maya Jane Coles Feat .chelou - Never Asked For Much 15:23 Emi Ca - Just Breathe 15:19 Camelphat - Waiting (Eli & Fur's Found Version) 15:13 Booka Shade & Satin Jackets - Fusion Royale 15:09 Andrew Nagy & Joel Winterflood - Little To None 15:06 Boerd Feat. Stella Explorer - Before We Drown 15:00 Volen Sentir & Makebo - Into The Stars 14:56 Bob Moses - Like It Or Not (Love Thy Brother Remix) 14:56 C H I L L T R A X - Valante Io Toh 14:52 Monolink - Turning Away (Parra For Cuva Remix) 14:47 Above & Beyond & Marty Longstaff - Gratitude (Aname Pm Mix) 14:43 Eric Hilton - Forming Star 14:38 Alex Lo Faro - Move With Me 14:35 Jako Diaz & Leyet - Only You 14:34 C H I L L T R A X - Be Svendsen World Comes 14:31 Jones Meadow - Shackles 14:26 Sg Lewis Feat. Lucky Daye - Feed The Fire (Kassian Remix) 14:22 Phoenix & Dj Falcon - Winter Solstice (Braxe Falcon Remix) 14:18 Odsen - Retrospective 14:13 Steven Weston Feat. Lapsley - Like I Used To 14:13 C H I L L T R A X - Parents Magazine Seal 14:09 Childish Gambino - Feels Like Summer 14:06 Sum Wave - It Feels Like Summer 14:02 Passenger 10 - Voices In Her Head 13:56 Trilucid - Cheyenne (Extended Sunset Mix) 13:52 Gramatik - Chillaxin' By The Sea 13:52 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Dzihan 13:48 Morgin Madison & Ryan Lucian - From The Start (Mm Chill Remix) 13:43 Eelke Kleijn Feat. Diana Miro - You 13:38 Cahelo - Bananaquit (Mass Digital Extended Remix) 13:35 Tep No & Noak Hellsing - I Won’t Need You 13:30 Max Cooper - A Model Of Reality (Tor Remix) 13:30 C H I L L T R A X - Worlds Chillout Channel (Chillout Channel) 13:25 Alan Cerra - Radiant 13:20 Chicane & The Mannequin - Summer In E Major 13:17 Catz 'n Dogz Feat. Jaw - Time 13:12 Zaven - Voliere Amplitude 13:08 Vandelux - Tulum 13:05 Everything But The Girl - Run A Red Light 12:59 Forty Cats & Arentis - Zen 12:56 Alampa - Seesaw Season 12:53 Diplo & Black Coffee Feat. Elderbrook - Never Gonna Forget 12:48 Ry X & Olafur Arnalds - Colorblind (Whomadewho Remix) 12:44 Chill Cole - Liquid Life 12:39 Disclosure - Moonlight 12:39 C H I L L T R A X - Magnifyingglasssogood4u 12:36 Fløa (Floa) - Pictures Of You 12:32 Fkj Feat. Little Dragon - Can't Stop 12:28 Sultan Shepard - Sirens 12:24 Genix & Zashanell - All I Want (Chill Out Mix) 12:23 C H I L L T R A X - Glitchy Toh 12:20 Satin Jackets & Panama - Alive 12:15 Two Lanes - Movement 12:10 Beacon - Until Next Time 12:06 Reel People & Muhsinah - Something New (Kraak & Smaak Remix) 12:02 Duckmaw - Nox 12:02 C H I L L T R A X - Trans Europe Vocoder 11:56 Steven Weston Feat. Tae - Same Dream 11:52 Leisure - Slipping Away (Flight Facilities Remix) 11:48 Pableno - Heights 11:43 Sumsuch Feat. Matty Eeles - Find Home (Vincenzo-chilltrax Sumdub Mix) 11:37 Massive Attack - Safe From Harm 11:37 C H I L L T R A X - Chill Out Chilltrax 11:34 Rocket Empire - Lima 11:29 Alison Goldfrapp - The Beat Divine 11:25 Hoki - Memories Of Love (Dsf Remix) 11:21 Dreem - Miles Away 11:21 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Freesound 11:18 Nils Hoffmann Feat. Gordi - No One Else 11:13 Braxe Falcon - Step By Step (Amtrac Remix) 11:09 Woven - Brushes 11:06 53 Thieves - Two Days 11:00 Eli & Fur - Better In The Dark 10:55 Darius Feat. Benny Sings - Rise (Darius Remix) 10:50 Nox Vahn & Marsh - Come Together 10:46 Melosense - Nous 10:41 Bob Moses - Days Gone By 10:40 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Cymbal Roll Bass 10:37 Xixi Feat. Kwesi - Close To U 10:33 Tep No Feat. Starzun - Hold Me 10:29 Edapollo - By The River (Faodail Remix) 10:26 Elderbrook & Tourist - Howl (Chill Mix) 10:23 Jones Meadow & Clara Mendes - Em Baixo 10:23 C H I L L T R A X - Ct The Backward Chillout Channel 10:20 Lar - Collide (Jody Wisternoff & James Grant Remix) 10:16 Drama - 3am 10:13 Attlas & Jodie Knight - Used To The Silence 10:09 Il:lo - Ink 10:05 Sons Of Maria - Always 10:04 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Moon Boots 10:00 Circle Sky - Love Hertz 09:57 Sebastian Davidson - Nomads 09:52 Sound Quelle & Tailor - Where We Should Be 09:49 Lp Giobbi Feat. Caroline Byrne - Another Life 09:45 Gramatik - Muy Tranquilo 09:45 C H I L L T R A X - Retsyn 09:41 Heard Right & Oracle - There For You 09:36 Shallou - Fading 09:32 Rocket Empire - Astoria 09:28 Blonde Maze - When You Move 09:25 Floa & Phonic Youth - Falling Away 09:24 C H I L L T R A X - Escape The Noise 09:20 Above & Beyond - Believer (Marsh's Guatape Remix) 09:16 Mozez & Tim Angrave - Head Full Of Dreams 09:12 Lliam And Latroit Feat. Brea - Someday (Latroit Edition) 09:08 Duckmaw - Distant Worlds 09:05 Leisure Feat. Muroki - Summer Season 08:59 Arley & Sirolf - One Day 08:54 West & Zander - Silfra 08:50 False Intentions - Good Liar 08:46 Embrz Feat. Abroad - Rise 08:41 Royksopp & Susanne Sundfor - Oh, Lover (Nto Remix) 08:36 Alex V - Cristal Shore 08:32 Zero 7 - In The Waiting Line 08:32 C H I L L T R A X - R.i.p. John Hurt 08:28 Two Lanes - Searching (Exclusive Chilltrax Fixed It! Mix) 08:22 Pilots Of Peace - Fallin 08:17 Ghenwa Nemnom - Story Of A Battle (Chris Zippel Remix) 08:12 Zhu & Yuna - Sky Is Crying 08:12 C H I L L T R A X - Slurry Toh 08:07 Maya Jane Coles Feat .chelou - Never Asked For Much 08:04 Attom - Where Are We Going 08:00 Alampa - The One 07:56 Satin Jackets Feat. Mandy Jones - In This Life 07:53 Ran The Man - Swimmingpool 07:53 C H I L L T R A X - Tcc Warm And Tender Ocean 07:50 Afterlife - All I Wanted 07:46 Sasha - Bygone 07:41 Blank & Jones - Floatation 07:37 Khotin & Tess Roby - Fountain, Growth 07:31 Be Svendsen - October Letters (Page 2) 07:31 C H I L L T R A X - Comes To Chill Out 07:26 Billion Watchers - Rainman 07:22 Jan Blomqvist & Malou - Alone 07:19 Ferr By Ferry Corsten And Youth Novels - Hands 07:16 Holen - Healing 07:16 C H I L L T R A X - Valante Io Toh 07:12 Lipless & Blue Noir - Alone 07:08 Phoenix & Dj Falcon - Winter Solstice (Braxe Falcon Remix) 07:04 Sons Of Maria - Outbound 07:01 Chris Malinchak - Happiness (Eternal Moment Mix) 06:56 George Fitzgerald & Syml - Mother 06:53 Lost In Pacific & Hanging Valleys - Escape 06:50 Kaskade With Project 46 - Chains Chilled 06:46 Flexible Fire - Amatista 06:41 Christine And The Queens - Tilted (Paradis Remix) 06:41 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Dzihan 06:38 Cannons - Loving You 06:34 Vintage And Morelli Feat. Arielle Maren - The Light (Flexible Fire Remix) 06:30 Jones Meadow - Alike 06:27 Nuage Feat. Gus - The Place We Know 06:22 Nicholas Gunn & Alina Renae - Angel Eyes 06:22 C H I L L T R A X - Street Life Worlds Cc 06:19 Sum Wave - It Feels Like Summer 06:15 Drama - Don't Hold Back 06:11 Chicane & The Mannequin - Summer In E Major 06:07 Heard Right & Fløa - Enough 06:03 Jimpster & Oliver Night - Ascension 06:03 C H I L L T R A X - Glitchy Toh 05:58 Missfeat - The World Before (Niko Garcia Remix) 05:54 Dye O - Simply Be Here 05:48 Sumsuch Feat. Matty Eeles - Find Home (Vincenzo-chilltrax Sumdub Mix) 05:44 R Plus & Faithless Feat. Amelia Fox - It's Enough (The Last High) 05:39 Lamorn - Olsen After Midnight 05:35 Rohne - Twelve 05:35 C H I L L T R A X - Cleanliness Don't You Agree 05:31 Fløa (Floa) - Pictures Of You 05:27 Eli & Fur Feat. Brothertiger - She's Just A Wanderer 05:23 Arto - Now You're Gone 05:18 Northern Form - Mend 05:14 Everything But The Girl - Forever 05:14 C H I L L T R A X - Chilltrax - Chill Out Piano 05:09 Two Lanes - Belong 05:06 Satin Jackets & Panama - Alive 05:00 Double Touch Feat. Reigan - Greatest Day 04:55 Volen Sentir & Makebo - Into The Stars 04:51 Royksopp - Me&youphoria 04:47 Evelynka - Letting Go 04:42 Holen - Not Too Late 04:39 Alampa - Seesaw Season 04:35 Elderbrook & Emmit Fenn - I’ll Find My Way To You 04:30 Sound Quelle Feat. Daniel Robinson - Tempest 04:27 Chill Cole - Liquid Life 04:23 Moby - Porcelain (Arty Remix) 04:23 C H I L L T R A X - Magnifyingglasssogood4u 04:20 Reel People & Paula - Vibe (Moods Remix) 04:15 Dom Dolla & Mansionair - Strangers (Flight Facilities Remix) 04:11 Sum Wave - Milkyway 04:08 London Grammar - How Does It Feel 04:08 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Freesound 04:03 Braxe Falcon - Step By Step (Amtrac Remix) 04:00 Finding Mero - In Loving Memories 03:55 Odesza Feat. Olafur Arnalds - Light Of Day (Parra For Cuva Remix) 03:51 Kidnap & Pinkpirate - Things Change 03:47 Melosense - Story To Remember 03:47 C H I L L T R A X - Something I Should Tell You 03:43 Feiertag - Didn't Know Why (You Lost Your Soul) 03:39 Avira & Nourey Feat. Tom Bailey - Favourite Game 03:34 Cahelo - Bananaquit (Mass Digital Extended Remix) 03:30 Nils Hoffmann Feat. Malou - About You 03:25 Zero 7 - Destiny 03:25 C H I L L T R A X - Organ The Chillout Channel 03:22 Flexible Fire - Marea Turquesa 03:17 Alex Lo Faro - Move With Me 03:13 Blonde Maze - Night Light (Hessian Remix) 03:10 Dreem - Miles Away 03:09 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Cymbal Roll Bass 03:06 Forester - Saint (Shallou Remix) 03:03 Attlas & Jodie Knight - Used To The Silence 03:01 Giants' Nest - Heart Void 02:56 Andre Aguado - Through The Night 02:56 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Moon Boots 02:52 Rasmus Faber Feat. Metaxas - Be Real (Satin Jackets Remix) 02:48 Sebastian Davidson - Nomads 02:44 Kelela - Enough For Love 02:40 Elderbrook & Tourist - Howl (Chill Mix) 02:36 Be Svendsen - State The Obvious 02:36 C H I L L T R A X - Be Svendsen World Comes 02:32 Kx5 & Sofi Tukker - Sacrifice (St Mix) 02:26 Sons Of Maria - Close To Me 02:23 Aftruu - Falling Asleep 02:19 Tep No - Deep Sin 02:15 Eli & Fur - Where I Find My Mind 02:15 C H I L L T R A X - Escape 2 Music 02:10 Jones Meadow - Entrance 02:06 Mozez & Tim Angrave - Head Full Of Dreams 02:02 Leaving Laurel - The Family We Find 01:58 Mansionair & Vandelux - Empty Promise 01:52 Alison Goldfrapp - The Beat Divine 01:49 Morcheeba - The Moon (Kutiman Remix - Version B) 01:45 Fhin Feat. Sahara - Fallin' Fallin' 01:40 Il:lo - Cynnes 01:36 Henry Green - Another Light 01:36 C H I L L T R A X - Slurry Toh 01:33 Jan Blomqvist - Carry On (Earthlife Remix) 01:29 Leisure - Take You Higher (Serebii & Arjuna Oakes Remix) 01:26 Vintage & Morelli - Once Upon A World 01:23 Lp Giobbi Feat. Caroline Byrne - Another Life 01:18 Nicholas Gunn Feat. Chris Howard - Thought Of You 01:17 C H I L L T R A X - Backward Rvb Where World Comes 01:15 Attom - Where Are We Going 01:11 French Braids & Matt Hartke - Heaven On Loan 01:06 Maya Jane Coles Feat. Chelou - Never Asked For Much 01:02 Odsen - Retrospective 00:57 Attlas Feat. Mango - Over The Water 00:57 C H I L L T R A X - Valante Io Toh 00:51 Mishegas - Temporary Love (Il:lo Remix) 00:47 Alex V - Cristal Shore 00:44 Blonde Maze - Daydream (Otherwise Fine Remix) 00:39 Booka Shade & Satin Jackets - Fusion Royale 00:34 Adisyn - Digital Heart 00:34 C H I L L T R A X - Jimpster 1 00:28 Steven Weston Feat. Tae - Same Dream 00:23 Nicolas Godin Feat. Cola Boyy - The Foundation 00:19 Melosense - Nous 00:15 Gold Lounge - Higher 00:11 Everything But The Girl - Caution To The Wind 00:11 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Bassy Dr 00:07 Approaching Black - Sensitive 00:03 Phoenix & Dj Falcon - Winter Solstice (Braxe Falcon Remix) 00:00 Feiertag Feat. Tessa Rose Jackson - Follow

[exeuntstormtroopers]

What are some headcanons you have about Wesley from Children of Hypnos that you haven’t shared yet? I’m obsessed with him rn idk why lol

Wes's favorite breakfast is oatmeal with banana

He loves banana the fruit but hates banana candy

He hasn't gotten rid of his ratty sweater because it used to be his dad's and his mom made it

He secretly thinks he would love needle crafts, if he ever got time to try them. Knitting, embroidery, etc. He tells no one.

His greatest fear is losing his eyesight

Lesser fears are small dark spaces, unexpected chunks in his pre-bottled protein shakes, and the call of mourning doves

He doesn't know why the call of mourning doves freaks him out

When he goes for his monthly sleep, he has dreams of being at a backyard cookout. His whole extended family is there, but one by one they start to disappear, until it's only him and Ridley.

Sometimes he thinks he remembers what it felt like to have White Sight, but it's fleeting

His favorite spot on Fenhallow's campus is one of the picnic tables on the quad outside Hothram Hall, where the trees make nice shade.

His dreamforming potential rivals Aldrich Ashworth's, though he hasn't reached that level yet.

He has actually always liked Emery, even when he found her annoying as hell or thought of her as aloof and entitled. Her confidence helped him believe that dreamhunting was a worthwhile pursuit, especially when he most felt like they only existed to die.

[notonlyamin]

I'm passionately searching for children of hypnos fandom and I can't find a single soul who is reading this series which I believe is one of the most fantastic and underrated fantasy series. Please don't say all of you guys are killed by your doppelgangers, I'm not ready for my insanity prime yet.

[childrenofhypnos]

The Children of Hypnos Volume 2 is here.

THE CHILDREN OF HYPNOS VOLUME 2 IS HERE.

After the attack on Fenhallow, Emery & co. are still trying to get back on their feet. The Hypnos State is coming to investigate what happened, and Emery continues to fracture over the events of that night and the horrors still to come.

Head over to Wattpad to start reading. It’s completely free, and you don’t even need a Wattpad account. If you’re a returning reader, welcome back! If you’ve never read any of The Children of Hypnos before, you can read the first book and catch up by following the link and starting with Chapter 1: Dreamhunter.

The Children of Hypnos is a Young Adult urban fantasy series about Emery Ashworth, a girl raised in a society of nightmare hunters. It originally appeared in the novel Eliza and Her Monsters as a fictional story discussed between the characters. Every Wattpad chapter includes original header art drawn by the author.

New chapters post Mon+Fri @ 1:00PM EST until the volume is complete.

Frequently Asked Questions:

Volume 1 was simultaneously posted on Tumblr and Wattpad. Why is Volume 2 only being posted on Wattpad?

This is entirely for the stats. It’s easier to track reads, likes, comments, and general demographics on Wattpad. Also, it’s easier for readers to see the whole story in the Table of Contents, rather than having to scroll through Tumblr tags or post archives. (And since the author doesn’t have to make her own table of contents, she has more time to do things like write more of the story.)

Will The Children of Hypnos ever be published as a physical book?

Possibly! This is one of the reasons we keep stats. If you’d like to see CoH as a physical book (or book series!) the best thing you can do is spread the word. Tell your friends, share the Wattpad link online, and continue reading and liking the chapters. There are never any guarantees, of course, but any little bit helps.

The story won’t stop after Volume 4 like it did in Eliza and Her Monsters, right?

There are no plans to stop writing the series before it’s completed. In Eliza and Her Monsters, the fictional series The Children of Hypnos was a 5-book series. The author had previously stated this to be true for the real series The Children of Hypnos as well. However, the author was looking at the many plotlines she’d set up and is now considering the small possibility that she perhaps, possibly, maybe underestimated her own story.

When will Volume 3 come out?

Hold your flaming nightmare horses! Volume 2 isn’t even finished yet!

Start reading now on Wattpad!

[thehomemadehooligan]

10-64K Jenkins - Cody Saintgnue

Aashi Stone - Naomi Scott

Aayan Shaw - Jackson Rathbone

Abilene Wagner - Natalie Portman

Ace Chase - Sebastian Stan

Ace Spade - Taron Egerton

Adam Elliot - Leland Chapman

Addi Valiant - Allison Scagliotti

Addie Brewster - Idda Van Munster

Ae Chihu - Wooshin

Agent London Clark - Chris Evans

Agent Peter Burke - Tim DeKay

Agron - Dan Feuerriegel

Aiden Wright - Dean O’Gorman

Akkeri kom Podakru - Alex Høgh Andersen

Alana Meridian - Ksenia Solo

Alaric Saltzman - Matthew Davis

Alastair York - Jai Courtney

Alec Lightwood - Matt Daddario

Alec MacDowell - Jensen Ackles

Aleda Kingsleigh - Dove Cameron

Aleks Lubomirski - Bartosz Gelner

Alex Avanyu - Avan Jogia

Alex Fierro - Avan Jogia

Alex Rider - Alexander Ludwig

Alex Taylor - Richard Harmon

Alex Wright - Richard Harmon

Alf Tungri - Will Peltz

Alfred Pennyworth - Sean Pertwee

Alice Rula - Madeline Brewer

Aline Penhallow - Arden Cho

Alix Kirkland - Daniel Sharman

Allanon - Manu Bennett

Amber Amberjack - Dom Sherwood

Ambrose Spellman - Chance Perdommo

Amity - Elizabeth Gillies

Anand Morrígu - Sean Maguire

Anastasia Cloe - Eiza Gonzalez

Anders Johnson - Dean O'Gorman

Andreas Vasilescu - Luke Camilleri

Angel Eyes - DJ Cotrona

Angie Landers - Tatiana Maslany

Anjisnu - Kim Coates

Anya Price - Gina Rodriguez

April Hare - Theo James

Arawen Annwn - Stuart Reardon

Archie Andrews - Kat McNamara

Archie Andrews - KJ Apa

Ardal Cody - Kendall Schmidt

Arika Longan - Harry Shum Jr

Arrow kom Boudalankru - Tatiana Maslany

Arsena Larken - Zendaya Coleman

Art Gremellion - Daniel Gillies

Arthur - Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Ash Houndsworth - Sean Teale

Atticus Bane - Will Tudor

Atticus Philo - Grey Damon

Austin DeSantos - Ludi Lin

Avery Durin - Aaron Paul

Axe kom Boudalankru - Aiden Turner

Azmodeus - Landon Liboiron

Baby Collins - Ansel Egort

Baby Driver - Ansel Elgort

Baby Grant - Garrett Hedlund

Balance Grant - Charlie Hunnam

Bane - Tom Hardy

Barclay Kirby - Zane Holtz

Bard Sinclair - Cameron Monaghan

Barnabé Klausen - Bradley Soileau

Baron Remi Goldwyn-Mayer - Michael Fassbender

Barren Guilderson - Iwan Rheon

Bart Putnam - Aaron Taylor Johnson

Bas Norsewood - Sam Steele

Bash de Poitiers - Torrance Coombs

Bax Adamson - Finn Roberts

Bea Cres - Bill Skarsgard

Bea Porter - Rachel Skarsten

Bela Talbot - Lauren Cohen

Bellami Blake - Shay Mitchell

Bellamy Blake - Bob Morley

Belle Amanita - Freeman Agyeman

Ben Bartlett - Jensen Ackles

Ben Fringe - Matt Daddario

Ben Hargeeves - Justin H Min

Ben Kilmartin - Jacob Elordi

Benjamin Heritage - Kellan Lutz

Bent Williams - Tom Payne

Bertie Cooper - Will Tudor

Berto Vega - Jai Courtney

Betsy Shrivatsa - Dichen Lachman

Betty Cooper - Lili Reinhart

Big Grant - Travis Fimmel

Bika kom Azgeda - Michael Eklund

Billy Barton - Brandon Flynn

Billy de Lauro - Cody Christian

Billy Hargrove - Dacre Montgomery

Billy-Ray Sanguine - Michael Fassbender

Bishop Smith - Jack Falahee

Black Hat - Karl Urban

Blade Hood - Grace Phipps

Blaise Caelia - Joe Manganiello

Bliss - Matt Daddario

Bo - Henry Cavill

Bo Grimm - DJ Cotrona

Bobby Mercer - Mark Wahlberg

Bobo Del Rey - Michael Eklund

Bod Chayton - Booboo Stewart

Bosse Ljung - Anson Mount

Bothain Gladstone - Skeet Ulrich

Bowyn Coke - Ian Bohen

Brad Coleman - Jaren Brandt Bartlett

Brennan Mulwray - Victor Webster

Brian O'Connor - Paul Walker

Briar Eglantine - Evan Ross

Briar Jones - India Eisley

Bridget Barker - Natalie Dormer

Brigid Nic Dagda - Kaya Scodelario

Brodie Reston - Jordan Connor

Bunnymund - Norman Reedus, Shawn Mendes

Burke - Michael Fassbender

Burn Milburn - Chris Wood

CA Cupid - Dove Cameron

Caden Lovell - Keiynan Lonsdale

Cai Ryers - Cody Saintgnue

Caine Dunbar - Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Cairns West - Alexander Skarsgard

Cal August - Aaron Jakubenko

Caleb Danvers - Steven Strait

Calleigh Rousseau - Sammi Hanratty

Cam Thompson - Max Thieriot

Capp Hertz - Mchine Gun Kelly

Captain Barbie Barbara - Mike Vogel

Captain Dutch Deadwood - Anson Mount

Captain Harriet Hook - Emeraude Toubia

Captain Jack Sparrow - Johnny Depp

Captain Jim Kirk - Chris Pine

Captain Mal Reynolds - Nathan Fillion

Captain Steve Rogers - Chris Evans

Cara - Allison Scagliotti

Carl Gallagher - Ethan Cutkosky

Carlos DeVil - Cameron Boyce

Carny South - Finn Jones

Carol Danvers - Brie Larson

Casi Riqui - David Castaneda

Cassidy - Joe Gilgun

Cassie Diaval - Lindy Booth

Castle Baxter - Jon Bernthal

CC Clair - Claudia Lee

Cerise Hood - Marie Avgeropoulos

Champion Barrow - Tyler Posey

Charlie Bradbury - Felicia Day

Charlie Stephenson - Willa Holland

Chase Collins - Sebastian Stan

Chase Stein - Dom Sherwood

Chef Daniel Addams - Christian Kane

Cheka kom Trikru - Blair Redford

Chelle Reilly - Sonequa Martin-Green

Cherry Cash - Colin O'Donaghue

Cheryl Blossom - Madelaine Petsch

Cheshire Liddell - Sebastian Stan

Chess Cat - Harry Shum Jr

Chev Arthur - Jason Statham

Chibs Telford - Tommy Flanagan

Chic Smith - Hart Denton

Chief Osprey - Tyler Posey

Choi Trio - Jeonghan

Chris Argent - JR Bourne

Chryso Brach - Hart Denton

Chuck Hansen - Rob Kazinsky

Chul Bora - T.O.P

Ciaran Byrne - Skeet Ulrich

Ciel Quinn - Hale Appleman

Cinda Wocky - Lucy Hale

CJ Hook - Kat McNamara

Clark Griffin - Austin Butler

Clarke Griffin - Eliza Taylor

Clary Helstrom - Tyler Blackburn

Clint Barton - Jeremy Renner, Luke Mitchell

Clove Sageseed - Jonathan Whitesell

Coco Cash - Dave Franco

Cody Pine - Logan Lerman

Col. Basher Moran - Michael Fassbender

Cole Higgins - Monty Geer

Colonel Jack O'Neill - Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Welch

Colonel John Sheppard - Joe Flanagan

Colossus - Danila Kozlovsky

Connor Angel - Vincent Kartheiser, Chandler Riggs

Connor Kent - Robbie Amell

Connor MacManus - Sean Patrick Flanery

Conrí Faolán - Cole Sprouse

Coop Lachlan - Dacre Montgomery

Cooper Rose - Konstantinos Laios

Copper kom Yujleda - Kristin Stewart

Corbin kom Ingranronakru - Shane West

Costin Comescu - Scott Eastwood

Cotton Thistle - Hansol Vernon Chwe

Countess Marishka Tepes - Kiara Glasco

Court Silver - Richard Harmon

Crawford Leather - Charlie Weber

Crina Demetra - Lyndsy Fonesca

Cyneric Ashworth - Nick Bateman

Daci Larken - Tammin Sursok

Dag Ryden - Daniel Di Tomasso

Daisy Diaz - David Castro

Dalia kom Azgeda - Sophie Turner

Damon Salvatore - Ian Somerhalder

Daniel Hale - Tyler Hoechlin

Danihel Ranger - Alexander Calvert

Dante Fischer - Dylan O'Brien

Daria Sabriel - Jaimie Alexander

Darien Hale - Tyler Hoechlin

Darius Sabriel - Samuel Larsen

Darko Pover - Dom Sherwood

Darling Charming - Eliza Taylor

Darya Ryden - Meghan Ory

Daryl Dixon - Norman Reedus

Daya Kitchell - Zendaya Coleman

Deadpool - Ryan Reynolds

Dean Winchester - Jensen Ackles

Death of the Endless - Summer Glau

Deck Chelios - Joe Manganiello

Declan Hale - Tyler Hoechlin

Declan Harp - Jason Momoa

Del Clover - Jordan Connor

Delia Midford - Allison Scagliotti

Delirium of the Endless - Hayley Williams

Delta - Clive Standen

Denny Toombs - Greyston Holt

Deputy Avi Callahan-Constantine

Derek Hale - Tyler Hoechlin

Des Carter - Frank Grillo

Desire of the Endless - Ruby Rose

Det. Kee Cavanagh - Tom Hardy

Detective Ainsley Mansfield - Christian Kane

Detective Danno Williams - Scott Caan

Detective Danny Messer - Carmine Giovinazzo

Detective Dyson Thornwood - Kris Holden-Reid

Detective Javan Bengal - Michael Fassbender

Detective Konstantinos Cruz - Colton Haynes

Dew DeWitt - Francois Arnaud

Diana Derrick - Brooke Williams

Diana Prince - Gal Gadot

Diego Hargreeves - David Castañeda

Dirk Gently - Samuel Barnett

Dmitry Kelso - Jay Ryan

Doc Holliday - Tim Rozon

Doc Holliday Jr - Matt Daddario

Domino - Keira Knightley

Dot Baum - Becky G

Doug Reston - Joe Manganiello

Dr Bones McCoy - Karl Urban

Dr Gryphon Trent - Chris Hemsworth

Dr Hank McCoy - Nicholas Hoult

Dr Harley Quinn - Hart Denton

Dr Hart Hansen - Tom Mison

Dr House - Hugh Laurie

Dr Jake Stone - Christian Kane

Dr Jill Holtzmann - Kate McKinnon

Dr Johann Stein - Richard Harmon

Dr Juneau Moone - Dane Dehaan

Dr Lane Reston - Skeet Ulrich

Dr Paddy Doyle - Andrew Scott

Dr Palmer Isley - KJ Apa

Dr Pamela Isley - Natalie Dormer

Dr Sindri Vidarr - Dane Dehaan

Dr Trick Grimsby - Ian Bohen

Draco Malfoy - Tom Felton, Miles Heizer

Drak kom Trishanakru - Alexander Dreymon

Draki Astarot - Troye Sivan

Dru Vritra - Santiago Segura

Dsimu Runihura - Michael Fassbender

Durant Fischer - Dylan O'Brien

Dusty Djura - Kat Dennings

Dwalin, Son of Fundin - Graham Mac Tavish

Eames - Tom Hardy

Eddie Brock - Tom Hardy

Eddy Williams - Adam G Sevani

Edric Lange - Anthony Mackie

Eggsy Unwin - Taron Egerton

Eight - Bob Morley

Eira Candace - Alycia Debnam-Carey

Eirlys kom Azgeda - Kit Harington

Eli Barros - David Castaneda

Elijah Mikaelson - Daniel Gillies

Eliot Spencer - Christian Kane

Eliot Waugh - Hale Appleman

Elise Gerard - Troian Bellisario

Elodie Kerstoph - Abbey Lee

Emerson Topper - Zach McGowan

Emery - Miss Psycho Cat/Minja Cvetković

Emma Austin - Scout Taylor Compton

Enzo Ferris - Brock O’Hurn

Enzo St John - Michael Malarky

Erik Lehnsherr - Michael Fassbender

Erin Strife - Ash Stymest, Cher Lloyd

Ethan Connors - Derek Theler

Evan Bilingham - Daniel Gillies

Evan Williams - Dan Stevens

Evgeni Shankarov - Paul Wesley

Evie Weiss - Max Schneider

Exy Enger - Caitlin Stasey

Eyes Auriemma - Rob Raco

Fabien Mariani - Bob Morley

Faith Firenze - Zoey Deutch

Faith Zora - Arielle Kebel

Falco LaPointe - Francois Arnaud

Fangs Fogarty - Drew Ray Tanner

Faolan Finn - Shawn Mendes

Faraday Jones - Chris Pratt

Farmer Quentin - Vin Diesel

Father Daine - JR Bourne

Father Gothel - Kim Coates

Father Robert King - Gabriel Macht

Felix Mosley - Jade Hassouné

Fergus Carter - Cole Sprouse

Fey Sprite - Natalia Dyer

Fi Kapua - Jungkook

Filarion Gaelin - Chanyeol

Fili, Son of Dis - Dea O'Gorman

Finn Collins - Thomas McDonell

Finn Liebrecht - Charlie Carver

Finnlee Camdyn - Hart Denton

Fionn Collins - Nina Dobrev

Fitz Luck - Lucas Till

Five Hargreeves - Aiden Gallagher

Five Voelkel - Dan Feuerriegel

Fletcher Herangi/Searanke - KJ Apa

Flick Fawkes - Lindsey Morgan

Flint Gladstone - Rob Raco

Flynn Addams - Norman Reedus

Flynn Rider - Jared Padalecki

Foma Comescu - Armie Hammer

Ford Waters - Jon Bernthal

Foster - Jade Hassouné

Fox Asterphilos - Michael Fassbender

Fox Tempest - Harry Shum Jr

Frank Castle - Jon Bernthal

Frank Martin - Jason Statham

Frazer Parkes - Zane Holtz

Fred Walter - Ellen Page

Freddie McClair - Luke Pasqualino

Freya Mikaelson - Riley Voelkel

Friday Ginger - Bradley Cooper

Garnet Porter - Danielle Harris

Garrett Burroughs - Amadeus Serafini

Gem Topaz - Jade Thirlwell

Geniy Kirova - Danila Kozlovsky

Geo kom Ingranronakru - Christian Kane

Geo Tyson - Christian Navarro

Gideon Kirkland - Nate Buzolic

Gil LeGume - Dylan Playfair

Ginger Breadhouse - Vanessa Morgan

Gladys Jones - Morena Baccarin

Gleb Mychajlovich - Luke Guldan

Glenn Dixon - Robert Buckley

Grace Zora - Claire Holt

Griffin - Jamie Bell

Gus Speedle - Jesse Metcalfe

Gwaine the Younger - Will Tudor

Ha Minsu - Yongguk

Haf kom Podakru - Clive Standen

Haihefa Roan kom Azgeda - Zach McGowan

Haiplana Rowan kom Azgeda - Olga Kurylenko

Han Seong-Jin - Seo In Guk

Han Seoul-Oh - Sung Kang, Jung Ji Hoon

Handsome Rob - Jason Statham

Hannibal King - Ryan Reynolds

Harley Keener - Ty Simpkins

Harp Wilson - Ashley Rickards

Harper - Gordon Michael Woolvett

Harry Addams - Sharlto Copley

Harry Hook - Thomas Doherty

Harry Osborn - Alex Høgh Andersen

Harvey Kinkle - Ross Lynch

Hayley Gold - Alberto Rosende

Hazel Haven - Kyle Gallner

Heave - Brock O’Hurn

Heda Lex kom Trikru - Greyston Holt

Heda Lexa kom Trikru - Alycia Debnam-Carey

Hendrix Mars - Odiseas Georgiadis

Henry Greyson - Brenton Thwaites

Henry Mikaelson - Richard Harmon

Herc Hansen - Max Martini

HG Graham - Jaime Murray

Hiram Lodge - Mark Consuelas

Hope Zora - Penelope Mitchell

Hush kom Azgeda - Tasya Teles

Hyde Jackson - Lucas Till

Ian Gallagher - Cameron Monaghan

Ianto Mumbles - Idris Elba

Iefan Mumbles - Idris Elba

Illyiad Barakan - Johnny Strong

Indigo Basile - Will Tudor

InDo Montoya - Cole Sprouse

Ink Marburg - Stephen James

Isaac Lahey - Daniel Sharman

Isias Apgar - Kim Coates

Issac Lawson - Luke Evans

Iva Malone - Stephanie Bennett

Ivo Ramsey - Keegan Allen

Izzy Swango - Matt Ryan

Jace Lightwood - Dom Sherwood

Jack Frost - Troye Sivan, Sean Patrick Flanery

Jack Morton - Jake Manley

Jacob Finnegan - Ian Bohen

Jade Jordan - Hailee Steinfeld

James Moriarty - Andrew Scott

Janet McCullogh - Emma Roberts

Jannick Boden - Robert Sheehan

Jareth the Goblin King - Brett Dalton, David Bowie

Jarvis Huish - Jake Abel

Jason Schuchard - Logan Henderson

Jason Todd - Bob Morley

Jasper Jordan - Devon Bostick

Jax Harley - Ricky Whittle

Jax Lewis - Noel Fisher

Jay Abanazar - Booboo Stewart

Jazz Hills - Nick Jonas

Jean Morau - Eliza Dushku

Jefferson - Sebastian Stan

Jem Fenrirson - Michael Fassbender

Jensen Ames - Jason Statham

Jensen Slick - Stephen Dorff

Jeremy Gilbert - Steven R McQueen

Jerry Lucas - Sam Heughan

Jess Gambino - China Anne McClain

Jett McCreighton-Hill - Cole Sprouse

Jia Nix - Justin H Min

Jim Moriarty - Andrew Scott

Jimmy Malone - Landon Liboiron/Tom Sturridge

JJ Jenkins - Megan Fox

Joaquin DeSantos - Rob Raco

Joe Addams - Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Joe McAlister - Colin Ford

Joel Bissainthe - Andy Biersack

Joel Gregory - Benedict Cumberbatch

Joel Shmishlyaev - Ash Stymest

John Avanyu - Karl Urban

John Constantine - Matt Ryan

John Mbege - Keiynan Lonsdale

John Murphy - Richard Harmon

John Silvini - Ryan Reynolds

John Vaako Grimm - Karl Urban

Johnnie Cooper - Tom Ellis

Johnny Jaqobis - Aaron Ashmore

Johnny Law - Vincent Ventresca

Jojo Cash - Chris Pine

Jon Byers - Charlie Heaton

Jon Snow - Kit Harington

Jonah Howard - Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Jones Templeton - Brock Kelly

Jordan Howard - Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Jory Kulkarni - Tyler Hoechlin

Jostus kom Sankru - Brock O’Hurn

JR Murphy - Richard Harmon

JT Jones - Bill Skarsgard

Jughead Jones - Cole Sprouse

Juice Ortiz - Theo Rossi

Jukebox Jones - Hannah Marks

Julio Richter - Diego Boneta

Jumpcut Jones - Dylan Sprouse

Kacey Patton - Dylan Sprouse

Kade Arcino - Zachary Quinto

Kaede Oshiro - Sehun

Kai Anderson - Evan Peters

Kai Parker - Chris Wood

Kaios Godfrey -Bill Skarsgard

Kaleb Westphall - Daniel Sharman

Kara Kaa - Eiza Gonzalez

Karolina Dean - Virginia Gardener

Kaya Carter-Reston - Dove Cameron

Kayla Doll - Emily Browning

Kaylee Sanderson - Gal Gadot

Kelly Benton - Darya Goncharova

Kelly Pryor - Brandon Larracuente

Kensington Banning - Will Tudor

Kenzo Malikov - Kim Heechul

Keri Graves - Marie Avgeropoulos

Kerry Holt - Richard Armitage

Kesa Brandt - Tom Hardy

Kevin Keller - Casey Cott

Ki Tilo - KJ Apa

Kid Loki - Cole Sprouse

Kili, Son of Dis - Aiden Turner

Killian Salvatore - Scott Caan

Kim Hart - Naomi Scott

Kincaid Jericko - Victor Webster

King Aim Dagonet - Jordan Connor

King Asnee Ambrocio - Choi Min Ki

King Beem - Jordan Connor

King Ben French - Mitchell Hope

King Christoph Henderson - Henry Cavill

King Lionel Reginus - Jason Momoa

King Papi Palma-Picarzo - Rob Raco

King Ragnar Lothbrok - Travis Fimmel

King Rey Bolivar - David Castro

King Rí - Joseph Morgan

King Rook Smith - Thomas Doherty

King Rory Reagan - Richard Madden

King Sigourney Algernon - Francois Arnaud

King Tru I Tania - Clive STanden

King Vlad Tepes III - Luke Evans

Kingsley Hopkirk - Kris Holden-Ried

Kintsu Kuroi - Jhope

Kisa - Eiza Gonzalez

Kit Barton - Luke Mitchell

Kit Corwin - Rob Raco

Kit Pryde - Dylan Sprayberry

Kit Rook - Colin Ford

Kito Jewel - Kit Harrington

Kitt Banning - Dom Sherwood

Kitten Byrne - Kit Harington

Kitten Kirk - Chloe Grace Moretz

Kitty Cheshire - Alyssa Claire Joynson

Kitty Kole - Kay Victoria

Klaus Mikaelson - Joseph Morgan

Knight Jack Knave - Dom Sherwood

Kol Mikaelson - Nate Buzolic

Kona Leilani - Dacre Montgomery

Kostia kom Trikru - Adelaide Kane, Emilia Clarke, Nyane Lebajoa, Hannah John Kamen

Kostin kom Trikru - Kit Harington, Lucky Blue Smith, Jordan Calloway

Kozik - Kenny Johnson

Kristoff of Arendelle - Chris Hemsworth

Ku Yejun - Jaejoong

Kuba Kowalski - Antoni Porowski

Kurgan Reina - Daniel Gillies

Kyda kom Trishanakru - Josefin Asplund

Kyle Bathory - Jake Manley

Kyra Badd - Alexa Davalos

L Lawliet - Ken'ichi Matsuyama

Lace Rainer - Jason Ralph

Lachlan Camdyn - Reilly Dolman

Lady/Lord Lara Croft - Alicia Vikander, Tom Hardy

Lán Sé Límíng - G-Dragon

Lanta kom Trishanakru - Harry Shum Jr

Lara Montgomery - Shelley Hennig

Lark Malone - Chloe Bennet

Laveau McQueen - Richard Harmon

Lavrenty Comescu - Mike Vogel

Lee Christmas - Jason Statham

Lee Druitt - Brett Dalton

Leigh Trace - Christian Slater

Leith Camdyn - Will Tudor

Lena Crighton - Hannah John-Kamen

Leon Strong - Johnny Strong

Leonard Snart - Wentworth Miller

Leone O'Ray - Dylan Sprouse

Levi Livingston - Jackson Rathbone

Lexington Wallander III - Travis Fimmel

Lia Santiago - Eiza Gonzalez

Liam Dunbar - Dylan Sprayberry

Liander Tybalt - Harry Shum Jr

Libby Tazzno - Mollee Gray

Light Yagami - Tatsuya Fujiwara

Lightfingers Bourne - Colin Ford

Lilah Sanderson - Danielle Campbell

Lily Highsmith - Crystal Reed

Link Fawkes - Thomas McDonell

Link, Last of the Hylians - Austin Butler

Lip - Jared Padalecki

Lip Trembuey - Reilly Dolman

Lissa Anderson - Jessica Lu

Logan - Hugh Jackman

Logan Cale - Michael Weatherly

Lola Locorant - Eiza Gonzalez

Lolli Baxter - Vanessa Morgan

Lonnie Li - Dianne Doan

Lord Albrecht Holmes - Tom Hiddleston

Lord Marshall Richard B Riddick - Vin Diesel

Lorelai Vierra - Lana Parilla

Loren Knowles - Shannon Kook

Lorna Lexington - Emma Dumont

Lou LaBelle-Ferretti - Tasya Teles

Louisa Giroux - Danielle Campbell

Loullabelle Jones - Allison Scagliotti

Lt. Col Switch McKenna - Alex O’Loughlin/Brock Kelly

Lt. Col. Anders Fontaine - Chris O'Donnell

Lt. Faceman Peck - Bradley Cooper

Lucien Judith - Michael Johnston

Lucifer Morningstar - Tom Ellis

Lucilla Nike - Charlize Theron

Lucius Philo - Kellan Lutz

Luke Castellan - Jake Abel

Luke Collins - Zak Henri

Luke Dusk - Mark Pellegrino

Lupe Lito - Miguel Ángel Silvestre

M’Ari Walker - Ksenia Solo

Macallan - Shawn Mendes

Mack Wilson - David Guintoli

Maddie Moreau - Sarah Hyland

Maddy Trevor - Bella Thorne

Madrigan Hatter - Landon Liboiron

Mae Coombs - Lili Reinhart

Maeve Aella - Phoebe Tonkin

Magnus Bane - Harry Shum Jr

Magpie TwoSpirit - Ruby Rose

Magret Spector - Vanessa Morgan

Maj. Ty Fontaine - Stephen Amell

Mak Timoti - Wentworth Miller

Makena Kysely - Colton Haynes

Malachai - Nicholas Hoult

Mangjol Ji-Tae - Minhyuk btob

Marc Wilder - Avan Jogia

Marcus Addams - Kim Coates

Marcus Berry - Godfrey Gao

Margo kom Sankru - Natalie Dormer

Marie Thompson - Meryl Streep

Mark Hobb - Jensen Ackles

Marley McCaffrey - Skeet Ulrich

Martin Rowdy - Michael Eklund

Mary Qazi - Sofia Boutella

Marzio Altamura - Jimmy Quaintance

Mathew Paterson - Tom Holland

Matilda Zolnerowich - Sygin

Matt Jeevas - Luhan

Matt Murdock - Charlie Cox

Mattie Brightley - Asa Butterfield, Cillian Murphy

Maven King - Diego Barrueco

Maz Lorne - Charlotte Best

McCorrigan Holmes - Tilda Swinton

Mekhi Kennedy - Bill Skarsgard

Mel Putnam - Jackson Rathbone

Meliorn - Jade Hassouné

Merlin Emrys - Colin Morgan

Merrick Finn - Dylan O'Brien

Mi Se-Yeon - Jimin

Mick Sweeney - Pablo Schreiber

Mickey Finn - Callum Blue

Mickey Milkovich - Noel Fisher

Midge Conlon - Colin Ford

Midge Klump - Nick Robinson

Mikael Whistler - Wentworth Miller

Mike Plisskin - Colin Ford

Miles O’Shaughnessy - Robert Sheehan

Miller Petroff - Mike Vogel

Million Pearce - David Castro

Milos Toplaski - Tommy Flanagan

Mim Fayette - Katie McGrath

Minka Vodnik - Olivia Wilde

Mira Bellami - Victoria Justice

Misty Lombardo - Adelaide Kane

Mitchell - Aiden Turner

Monroe Lorenzo - Michael Malarky

Moose Mason - Cody Kiersley

Morbid Kitchell - Machine Gun Kelly

Morgan Julius - Landon Liboiron

Morrigan Wallace - Lena Headey

Morrison Wallace - Tommy Flanagan

Ms. America - Gina Rodriguez

Murphy MacManus - Norman Reedus

Murtagh Reston - Thomas Doherty

Natalia Miller - Ashleigh Murray

Nate Spooner - Toby Hemmingway

Nathan Miller - Jarod Joseph

Nathaniel Barton - Grant Gustin

Natshana kom Trishanakru - Chai Hansen

Nell Reba-Barnes - Steve Howey

Neptune Hollins - Noah Centineo

Nia Bradbury - Andy Biersack

Nic Janson - Troye Sivan

Nick Agave - Dom Sherwood

Nick Scratch - Gavin Leatherwood

Nick St North - Kris Kristofferson

Nico DiAngelo - David Mazouz

Nico Minoru - Lyrica Okano

Nico Prentís - Cody Saintgnue

Nicolai Duchamps - Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Nik Ellis - KJ Apa

Nile Gwynnne - Nate Buzolic

Nix Arthur - Charlie Hunnam

No Preston - Max Riemelt

Noah Johnson - Mitchell Hope

Nolan James - Norman Reedus

Nonna Narrington - Caleb Landry Jones

Note Scofield - Cameron Boyce

Nova - Adam Lambert

Nysse Hamilton - Dayana Melgares

Nyx Greymark - Nyané Lebajoa

Oaklee Zaharis - Marie Avgeropoulos

Oddmund Bodilson - Brett Dalton

Oli Delfino - KJ Apa

Ong Minjae - Sehun

Onyx Frost-Haddock - Cole Sprouse

Opie Winston - Ryan Hurst

Orin Suelita - DJ Cotrona

Orion Hunter - Jai Courtney

Os Avanyu - Oscar Jaenada

Owen Anton - Devon Sawa

Owen Grady - Chris Pratt

Owen Palomino - Sean Patrick Flanery

Oz Keen - Cody Christian

Patricia Llewelyn - Scout Taylor-Compton

Paul Rumancek - Landon Liboiron

Paul Tristan - Nick Jonas

Paul Trubel - Miles Heizer

Paw Cavanaugh - Alisha Wainwright

Peg Simon - Joe Manganiello

Peilani Salvatore - Jason Momoa

Pen Carpenter - Hale Appleman

Percy Jackson - Cole Sprouse

Pern Sorrows - Colin Morgan

Perry Avanyu - Drew Fuller

Peter Hale - Ian Bohen

Peter Parker - Tom Holland

Peter Quill - Chris Pratt

Peter Rumancek - Landon Liboiron

Peyton Bennett - Dove Cameron

Philip Pearson - Reilly Dolman

Pike - Milo Ventimiglia

Pitch Black - Jude Law

Pixie Trix - Lena Scissorhands

Poe McCreary - Ruby Rose

Prali Kus - Sendhil Ramamurthy

Prince Alby Escamillia - Bob Morley

Prince Ali Ababwa - Avan Jogia

Prince Arthur Pendragon - Bradley James, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Prince Babylas French - Tom Holland

Prince Dubh of Dunbroch - Matt Daddario

Prince Fin Bratomil Leonidus - Jamie Campbell Bower

Prince Fionn of Dunbroch - Matt Daddario

Prince Greyson Rutherford - Robbie Kay

Prince Hans of the Southern Isles - Max Martini

Prince Hung Tae-Hee - TOP

Prince Kieran of the Wild Hunt - Nils Kuiper

Prince Kory Westergaard - Eddie Redmayne

Prince Mee-Dee Pendragon - Dom Sherwood

Prince Rapunzel - Jensen Ackles

Prince Tobias Morei - Pedro Aurelian

Princess Amberle Elessedil - Poppy Drayton

Princess Anna of Arendelle - Karen Gillan, Molly C Quinn, Miranda Otto

Princess Beth of Crims - Adelaide Kane

Princess Evie Grimhilde - Sofia Carson

Princess Merida of DunBroch - Rachelle LeFevre, Kat McNamara, Sadie Sink

Princess Ruby Henderson - Adelaide Kane

Princess Shuri of Wakanda - Letitia Wright

Professor Charles Xavier - James McAvoy

Professor Chuck Marks - Joe Manganiello

Professor Dai Ignotus - Frank Grillo

Professor Hartley Badeau - JR Bourne

Prudence Night Blackwood - Tati Gabrielle

Pubert Addams - David Mazouz

Pugsley Addams - Cole Sprouse

Q-ee Quire - Aaron Yoo

Quade Reeves - Froy Gutierrez

Queen Becci Doherty - Lucy Hale

Queen Elsa of Arendelle - Kathryn Winnick, Dove Cameron

Queen Juno Smith - Ariana Grande

Queen Lyria of Leah - Vanessa Morgan

Queen Rosalee Lette - Taylor Momsen

Queenie Scarlett - Bailey Jay

Quentin Coldwater - Jason Ralph

Quentin Cruikshanks - Zane Holtz

Quentin Quire - Machine Gun Kelly

Quinlan Cruikshanks - Zane Holtz

Quinn Dolan - Richard Harmon

Race Tabytha - Christopher Gorham

Rachel Summers - KJ Apa

Radley Finch - Stephen James

Radovan Zivkovic - Tom Hardy

Rainy Bright - Osric Chau

Raiven Reyes - Avan Jogia

Raleigh Beckett - Charlie Hunnam

Ran-Mao - Brianna Hildebrand

Randall Carpio - Adam DiMarco

Raphael Santiago - David Castro

Ratchet Rosston - Cher Lloyd

Raven Reyes - Lindsey Morgan

Ravi Enrico - Robert Sheehan

Ray Mantle - Ross Butler

Rayner Pope - Seth Gabel

Reggie Mantle - Charles Melton

Rei Kawahara - Dichen Lachman

Reid Garwin - Toby Hemmingway

Rell Hartfield - Chloe Bennet

Remus Godfrey - Bill Skarsgard

Rev. Jesse Custer - Dominic Cooper

Revolver - Lucas Till

Rex Rexford - Daniel Sharman

Ric Road - Gustaf Skarsgard

Richard Amore - Adam Levine

Richie Brooks - Andrew Scott

Richie Gecko - Zane Holtz

Rick Hobb - DJ Cotrona

Riko Velli - Niko Pepaj

Riley Barrick - Luke Bilyk

Rina Dust - Kat McNamara

Rip Finley - Arthur Darvill

River Green - Ezra Miller

Robert Lockshood - Taron Egerton

Robin Downes - Cole Sprouse

Robin Locksley - Colin Ford

Rocket Jameson - Alberto Rosende

Rogue - Jacob Elordi

Rogue - Victor Webster

Roman Godfrey - Bill Skarsgard

Roman Mercer - Avan Jogia

Roo Carter - Luanna Perez

Rory Harker - Cole Sprouse

Ros Carman - Emeraude Toubia

Rosco Domitan - Tommy Flanagan

Rose Parker - Sasha Lane

Rosie Dainty - Sarah Hyland

Ruairí Gunnrarr - Sean Patrick Flanery

Rune kom Azgeda - Jason Momoa

Rusty Ryan - Brad Pitt

Ryl Lytvynenko - Jamie Campbell-Bower

Ryl/Lyra Connors - Caleb Landry Jones, Holland Roden

Sadie Rosati - Jon Kortajarena

Saiya Erembour - Kiernan Shipka

Sam Lee Fisher - Kiersey Clemons

Sam Shankerov - Joel Kinnaman

Samael Abigor - Tom Hardy

Sameen Shaw - Sarah Shahi

Samira Avanyu - Rihanna

Samoset Ramirez Avanyu - Theo Rossi

Santa Muerte - Riae Suicide

Sassy Caitsidhe - Asa Butterfield

Schrödinger Cat - Godfrey Gao

Scorpius Malfoy - Troye Sivan

Scott Canterbury - Nate Buzolic

Scott McCall - Tyler Posey

Scott Summers - Tye Sheridan

Scout - Richard Harmon

Scud Buchanen - Norman Reedus

Sean Gallagher - Dane Dehaan

Seb Reid - Toby Hemmingway

Seb Shankerov - Joel Kinnaman

Sebastian Michaelis - Jared Leto

Sebastian Morgenstern - Will Tudor

Sébastienne Morgenstern - Dove Cameron

Seth Gecko - DJ Cotrona

Severin Moran - Michael Fassbender

SFC Bob Brown - Scott Foley

Sgt. Axel Miller - Jonathan Scarfe

Sgt. Bucky Barnes - Sebastian Stan

Sgt. Cougar Alvarez - Oscar Jaenada

Shalimar Fox - Victoria Pratt

Shalimar Rose - Emeraude Toubia

Shane Kilmartin - Noah Centineo

Shelby Kiyaya - Jason Momoa

Sheriff FP Jones - Skeet Ulrich/Cole Sprouse

Sherlock Holmes - Benedict Cumberbatch

Sherry Holmes - Benedict Cumberbatch

Sicario Montoya - David Castaneda

Sigla kom Podakru - Katheryn Winnick

Silas Kyle - Charles Melton

Silas Prince - Avan Jogia

Sim Chunho - Kiseop

Simon Bellamy - Iwan Rheon

Simon Cooper - Grant Gustin

Simon Jogia - Rami Malek

Simon Lewis - Alberto Rosende

Sinclair Lorentz - Aidan Turner

Siobhan Mbege - China Anne McClain

Siobhan Murphy - Lyndsy Fonesca

Sion Brass - Wentworth Miller

Sir Percival of Albion - Tom Hopper

Sky Vance - Dylan O'Brien

Sol Whitecrest - Nadia Hilker

Song Xieren - Xiao Meng

Sonnie Smythe - Dane Dehaan

Sophie Brightborn - Kat McNamara

Soubi Agatsuma - T.O.P

Sparkle Soleil - Virginia Gardener

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Book Recommendations to Turn the Page From 2019 to 2020

(Bloomberg Opinion) –It’s natural this time of year to take a look back at the months past and forward to the days ahead, to think about what made the news and what might shape the future. In that spirit, we asked the columnists of Bloomberg Opinion about the books they read in 2019: What was their favorite? What’s a must-read before 2020 arrives? What would they buy as a gift from their local bookshop? Here’s what they said.

A Must-Read If You Hope to See 2120

Bush fires in Australia caused unprecedented pollution. Europe suffered a record-setting heat wave. Cyclones displaced more than 2 million people in Bangladesh. Venice was flooded by the highest tides since the 1960s. California’s power outages became the new normal. All of which concluded the hottest decade in history, according to the United Nations.

That’s why “The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming” by David Wallace-Wells should be everyone’s must-read in 2020. Wallace-Wells provides overwhelming evidence that climate change is the existential threat to humanity. The planet is warming so much, so fast that it will increasingly reduce gross domestic product as much of the Earth becomes unlivable.

Neither despair nor denials are appropriate at this point. “We have all the tools we need, today, to stop it all,” writes Wallace-Wells. — Matthew A. Winkler

Wallace-Wells’s book is a haunting preview of what’s in store for our children and grandchildren if we don’t very rapidly wean ourselves off hydrocarbons. Severe drought, intense heatwaves and coastal flooding will force tens of millions of people to move. And there will be “much more fire, much more often, burning much of the land,” he writes.

Wallace-Wells is clear about who is chiefly to blame. More than half of fossil-fuel-related emissions have occurred in the past 30 years, meaning the planet “was brought to the brink of climate catastrophe within the lifetime of a single generation”

But he’s hopeful, not fatalistic. The task of “unplugging the entire industrial world from fossil fuels” also falls to a single generation. That generation is us. — Chris Bryant

A Must-Read for Embattled Presidents

Since 2019 has been an impeachment year, for me, that means reading about Watergate. There are actually four essential books: Fred Emery’s “Watergate” is the best telling of the story, from President Richard Nixon’s first dabbling with breaking the law all the way through his resignation. The two primary sources absolutely worth reading are the Nixon tapes collected in “Abuse of Power” and the chief of staff’s notes published as “The Haldeman Diaries.” What I’ll recommend, however, is Elizabeth Drew’s wonderful account of what it was like to live through the unraveling of a presidency, reissued as “Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon’s Downfall.” That’s the one I’m going to revisit before the Senate trial starts. And, if there’s time, the best Watergate movie, with apologies to the excellent “All the President’s Men,” is the 1999 comedy “Dick.” — Jonathan Bernstein

A Must-Read for Fugitive Financiers

“Billion Dollar Whale,” by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope, is a belter of a financial scandal takedown won’t take you long to read. It’s great fun — more Jackie Collins than forensic Michael Lewis analysis. It can be your guilty secret as you plow through the ever-more unbelievable scams of Jho Low, an ultra-aspiring Malaysian financier who sucks in the great and the (not so) good while ripping off his own country’s sovereign wealth fund 1MDB, with some big assists from Wall Street. A breathless collation of excellent investigative reporting, it shows real life really can be stranger than fiction. With the drama still unfolding in court, you can take a ringside seat as the authorities try to track down our antihero and get Goldman Sachs on the hook. Just try not to snigger at all the Hollywood flakes. — Marcus Ashworth

A Must-Read on the Protest Barricades

The words “Gilets Jaunes” never appear in “La France Qui Gronde” (The France That Grumbles, or Scolds), but the pages of this French volume are filled by the kind of ordinary people who made up the Yellow Vests movement that swept France a year ago.

Ahead of France’s presidential elections in 2017, journalists Jean-Marie Godard and Antoine Dreyfus visited a countryside grappling with suicides by farmers who couldn’t keep going, workers in one-industry backwaters whose jobs went to China, and parents and teachers who had given up on bureaucrats and were fixing their crumbling public school. Their frustration caught Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron unaware when his government tried to raise fuel taxes, sending mobs wearing roadside safety vests to occupy French traffic circles. Since then, protests against overbearing, corrupt or indifferent governments have lit up Algeria, Chile, Hong Kong, Iraq, Lebanon and more (the details differ, of course). This book helps understand the discontent in a country that knows something about inspiring revolutions. — Patrick McDowell

A Must-Read for Ruling the Boardroom

My pick: All five “A Song of Ice and Fire” novels by George R.R. Martin as well as the Dunk and Egg novellas and the Fire and Blood prequel. (Technically, they’re one body of work!)

Martin once asked in a Rolling Stone interview, “What was Aragorn’s tax policy?” It wasn’t entirely rhetorical: His point was that “Lord of the Rings” author J.R.R. Tolkien had “a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, the land would prosper.”

It’s not that simple, of course. Good leaders need more than good intentions. Charismatic heroes aren’t always (or even often) great administrators. Regardless of whether you watched the “Game of Thrones” HBO finale in 2019, if you’re a management geek like me you’ll enjoy reading about Martin’s power-hungry queens and honor-bound knights not only making decisions about love and duty, or dragons and White Walkers, but also about trade embargoes, luxury taxes and the Iron Bank’s singularly aggressive approach to recouping bad loans. The books are also enormously fun, which can’t be said of every leadership tome. And who knows? We may finally get the long-awaited sixth book in 2020. — Sarah Green Carmichael

A Must-Read for the Extremely Ambitious

“Our Man,” a biography of the late American diplomat Richard Holbrooke by George Packer, is a true page-turner, even at more than 600 pages. It is divided into three principal sections, each reflecting a chapter of Holbrooke’s eventful life and America’s geopolitical journey from the 1970s to the early 21st century.

I knew Holbrooke well in his days as a presidential envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan. I was serving as supreme allied commander at NATO, in charge of the overall mission of some 150,000 troops, when he came often to Afghanistan. I found Holbrooke highly energetic, full of ideas (both good and bad), extremely self-confident (his abiding characteristic) and utterly ambitious. Until I read “Our Man” and was able to put his vast talent and vaster ego in perspective, I didn’t appreciate how the arc of his career tracked the peak to the essential end of what some have called the American Century. — James Stavridis

A Must-Read for Those Tired of Truthiness

Seymour M. Hersh’s memoir, “Reporter,” takes us back to the golden era of American newspapers, following Hersh’s rise from lowly copyboy to world-renowned investigative journalist. Hersh exposed hypocrisy and deceit throughout the U.S. government — from the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam to Watergate to the Iraq wars — proving that an unrelenting drive for truth can overcome even the deepest duplicity. And as remarkable as Hersh himself is, the book reveals the everyday heroism of his sources, many of them military officers or civil servants who shared information at great risk to their livelihoods and careers. They, as Hersh teaches us, knew that their true responsibility was “to uphold and defend the Constitution […] not the President, or an immediate superior.” — Scott Duke Kominers

A Must-Read for Women Making History, Part 1

It’s 1962, and a young Washington Post reporter is sent to cover the fight for integration at the University of Mississippi. But there’s a problem: She’s black, and no white hoteliers in Oxford will put her up for the night. No matter. She finds a black-owned funeral home — funeral directors make great sources, she notes — and beds down in the mortuary. The result: a page one story spotlighting black Mississippians’ response to James Meredith’s heroism.

Dorothy Butler Gilliam’s memoir “Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist’s Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America” is a story filled with insults and triumphs like these. And it couldn’t have come at a better time. As the U.S. heads into an election year with racial justice and women’s rights high on the agenda, our newsrooms remain disproportionately white and male (with predictable consequences for coverage). The media still doesn’t look like America. But history shows that change is possible, with trailblazers like Gilliam leading the way. — Tracy Walsh

A Must-Read for Women Making History, Part 2

Those of us who cover the Middle East — in my case, for two decades, first as a correspondent, now as a commentator — have long known that the finest journalism from the region is the handiwork of the women who work there. That this is not more widely recognized is a travesty that “Our Women on the Ground,” edited by Zahra Hankir begins, at last, to remedy.

It has been many years since I have, at the end of a book, felt compelled immediately to start again from the beginning. On second reading of this superb compendium of reporting by Arab woman, a spasm of envy led me to speculate that the gender of the writers was germane to their excellence: surely my own work could have approached these heights had I, a man, not been denied access to half the population of the region?

Spare yourself such unworthy thoughts and instead partake in the intelligence and depth of insight that radiate from these brilliant journalists. — Bobby Ghosh

A Must-Read for Orwellian Times

The defining book of 2019 focuses on 1984, or more properly, on “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” by George Orwell. Dorian Lynskey’s “The Ministry of Truth,” a biography of the novel, has the zest and momentum of a Stephen King novel, and the piercing clarity and dark sensibility of Orwell himself. It demonstrates that Orwell’s novel, published shortly before his death, is a synthesis of ideas that he had been developing for decades — about human nature, authoritarianism, rage, power, eroticism, memory and, above all, truth.

In the U.S. (and not only there), 2019 was a year in which palpable falsehoods have been stated so boldly, and by such prominent leaders, that it has been difficult to maintain one’s bearings. When tens of millions of people believe things that tens of millions of other people believe to be flatly false, truth has a tough time getting traction. Lynskey ends his book with Orwell’s explanation of why he wrote his novel: “The moral to be drawn from this dangerous nightmare situation is a simple one. Don’t let it happen. It depends on you.” — Cass Sunstein

A Must-Read Along With a History Tome

Historians never tire of insisting that policy makers need to learn more history. Yet they are not, typically, very good at explaining how an understanding of history can make for better choices. That was the great contribution of Michael Howard, the recently deceased British military historian, whose two classic volumes of essays, “The Causes of Wars and Other Essays” and “The Lessons of History,” are my must-read books as 2019 comes to an end.

Howard’s key insight is that history provides no specific answers to particular policy problems. What worked before, in one set of circumstances, may backfire catastrophically when transferred across time and space to a very different context. The value of history is broader. It can expand our knowledge beyond our personal experiences, educate us in the complexity of human affairs and the importance of understanding other cultures, and help us recognize the connections between choices and consequences, between causes and effects.

“The true use of history,” Howard wrote, is “not to make men clever for next time; it is to make them wise for ever.” At a time when the U.S. faces no shortage of disorienting global challenges, that’s a lesson worth remembering. — Hal Brands

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Unai Emery tinkering exposes glaring lack of depth in his Arsenal squad during Crystal Palace defeat

I can understand why Unai Emery would like to equip eight players for Crystal Palace's visit on Sunday and on his team

I clearly thought that an attacking trio of

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang Alexandre Lacazette and Mesut Ozil have sufficient firepower to build Palace chase away.

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Unai Emery's plan to rest the main players of Arsenal against Crystal Palace on Sunday failed

His plan failed. The problem is that Arsenal does not have the same depth everywhere in the same depth as Manchester City. The advance simply did not have the support to thrive.

An inexperienced midfield combination of Matteo Guendouzi and Mohamed Elneny struggled to control the game. Behind them was an improvised defense involving Konstantinos Mavropanos, who only started his second game of the season, and Carl Jenkinson, whose last appearance in an Arsenal shirt was almost two months ago

Emery was already at half time his plans must change. What will disappoint him the most is the way his team has conceded all three goals.

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Shkodran Mustafi – one of the most famous footballers in the world, more experienced members of the side – was guilty of the first two. After not catching Christian Benteke on a free kick, he too easily let Wilfried Zaha pass a long ball.

Palace is not to be underestimated, especially not far from home where they have defeated Manchester City and have been narrowly lost from Liverpool

With the loss of Tottenham and Manchester United this was a perfect opportunity for Arsenal to strengthen their grip on a Champions League berth. Now they have to win the Europa League or get the job done in their next four league games. Three of them are gone at Wolves, Leicester and Burnley, and that will not be easy, given the battle of Arsenal on the road.

In an effort to lighten the load, Emery has made his way to return to Europe & # 39; s elite competition

[bewerken] He is a [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] of the most exciting players in the Pep Guardiola team, but his chances are limited by the sparkle of Bernardo Silva and Raheem Sterling.

Sane started only four of City & # 39; s last 11 games in all competitions, but the team looks more balanced

Bernardo was able to fall back on midfield so that Sane and Sterling United with their pace at the back could hurt. Sane plays with a point to prove.

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Kevin De Bruyne losing would be a blow, but it would offer Leroy Sane a wonderful opportunity

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Chris Hughton was adamant that Saturday's draw at Wolves

Since Crystal Palace defeated their rivals on December 4, they have just won three of their 19 final Premier League matches and did not score in each of their last six.

At no time does Brighto look like winning the game at Molineux. They came to a draw, spent most of the match in their own half and didn't have a single shot at the target.

Regardless of the division they have in the following season, it is clear that this team needs a major overhaul. Hughton and technical director Dan Ashworth will have their work cut out this summer.

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The Brighton team needs an overhaul regardless of which division they are in the following season

I was relegated in 1987 with Aston Villa. When you get to the bottom demolition, you can be consumed out of fear of losing.

The pressure came to Fulham and it is a shame for their supporters that they could not discover a winning mentality sooner.

joint top scorer of the Premier League with 19 goals, but i I understand why Mo Salah is not on the shortlist to defend his PFA Player of the Year crown. Only in the past few weeks have I watched the player who was devastating for goal last year. Liverpool teammates Virgil van Dijk and Sadio Mane, who did the cut, had more influence this season.

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Chilltrax (June 07, 2023)

23:56 Holen - Not Too Late 23:52 Satin Jackets Feat. Ivy Falls - Different Directions 23:52 C H I L L T R A X - Valante Io Toh 23:48 Sasha - Bygone 23:43 Leaving Laurel - There Is Beauty When You Allow Yourself To See 23:39 Tep No - Say What You Wanted 23:35 Heard Right & Oracle - There For You 23:30 Marsh - Me & You (Joe Miller Remix) 23:30 C H I L L T R A X - Fresh And Fascinating 23:26 Kx5 & Sofi Tukker - Sacrifice (St Mix) 23:21 Nicolas Godin Feat. Cola Boyy - The Foundation 23:16 Alex Lo Faro - Move With Me 23:13 Tennyson - Iron 23:08 Odesza Feat. Olafur Arnalds - Light Of Day (Parra For Cuva Remix) 23:08 C H I L L T R A X - Escape The Noise 23:04 Tescana - Benissa 22:59 Trilucid - Cheyenne (Extended Sunset Mix) 22:55 Catching Flies - Daymarks 22:50 Billion Watchers - Rainman 22:47 Baynk Feat. Drama - 1 Chance 22:43 Phello - Timelapse 22:43 C H I L L T R A X - Comes To Chill Out 22:39 Sum Wave - Moments Of Sundown 22:35 Alampa - Playoff 22:32 Embrz Feat. Abroad - Rise 22:28 Lp Giobbi Feat. Dj Tennis & Joseph Ashworth - All In A Dream 22:25 Lar - Collide (Jody Wisternoff & James Grant Remix) 22:20 London Grammar - Sights (Tourist Version) 22:19 C H I L L T R A X - Take Me Away! 22:16 Fløa (Floa) - Pictures Of You 22:13 Leisure - Be With You 22:08 Sons Of Maria - Outbound 22:03 Roma Moss & Holy - Too Late 22:03 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Dzihan 22:00 Attlas & Jodie Knight - Used To The Silence 21:57 Flexible Fire - Amatista 21:53 Cannons - Fire For You 21:48 Northern Form - Mend 21:43 Vincenzo - You Knew 21:43 C H I L L T R A X - Trans Europe Vocoder 21:39 Morgin Madison & Ryan Lucian - From The Start (Mm Chill Remix) 21:34 Circle Sky - Your Name 21:29 Zaven - Voliere Amplitude 21:24 Nils Hoffmann Feat. Julia Church - 9 Days 21:19 Zero 7 - Don't Call It Love 21:19 C H I L L T R A X - Twcc High Standard Of Quality 21:15 Il:lo - Ink 21:11 Feiertag - Didn't Know Why (You Lost Your Soul) 21:08 Ferr By Ferry Corsten And Youth Novels - Hands 21:03 Two Lanes - Movement 21:03 C H I L L T R A X - Glitchy Toh 20:59 Blonde Maze - When You Move 20:55 Lamorn - Olsen After Midnight 20:49 Emi Ca - Just Breathe 20:45 Pines - Dawn 20:45 C H I L L T R A X - Parents Magazine Seal 20:42 Jones Meadow & Clara Mendes - Em Baixo 20:38 Jimpster & Oliver Night - Ascension 20:33 Shallou - Fading 20:30 Dex 1200 - Ongea Nami 20:24 Massive Attack With Tracey Thorn - Protection 20:24 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Freesound 20:20 Elderbrook - Wasted On You 20:14 Mass Digital - Little Things 20:09 Alison Goldfrapp - The Beat Divine 20:05 Cinnamon Chasers - Surviving The Fire 20:05 C H I L L T R A X - Chilltrax - Chill Out Piano 20:01 Melosense - Nous 19:58 Kaskade With Project 46 - Chains Chilled 19:54 Gus, Nuage - The Place We Know (Original Mi 19:50 Sultan Shepard - Sirens 19:45 Pilots Of Peace - Fallin 19:45 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Cymbal Roll Bass 19:40 Hoki - Memories Of Love (Dsf Remix) 19:37 Dreem - Miles Away 19:32 Sg Lewis - Lifetime 19:28 Eli & Fur - Better In The Dark 19:22 Marsh - Black Mountain 19:22 C H I L L T R A X - R.i.p. John Hurt 19:18 Monolink - Turning Away (Parra For Cuva Remix) 19:14 London Grammar - How Does It Feel 19:10 False Intentions - Good Liar 19:06 Gold Lounge - Higher 19:01 Nicholas Gunn Feat. Chris Howard - Thought Of You 19:00 C H I L L T R A X - Organ The Chillout Channel 18:56 Valante - Eio 18:53 Lp Giobbi Feat. Caroline Byrne - Another Life 18:48 Kidnap Feat. Leo Stannard - Moments (Ben Bohmer Nils Hoffmann Remix) 18:45 Farius - Coming Up (Hold On) (Dokho Remix) 18:41 Fkj Feat. Little Dragon - Can't Stop 18:36 Ry X & Olafur Arnalds - Colorblind (Whomadewho Remix) 18:35 C H I L L T R A X - Worlds Chillout Channel (Chillout Channel) 18:32 Jones Meadow - Alike 18:28 Booka Shade & Satin Jackets - Fusion Royale 18:24 Gareth Emery - St Mary's 18:20 Pines Feat. Fractures - Rewrite The Ending 18:16 Sons Of Maria - It Takes So Long 18:11 Tycho Feat. Saint Sinner - Japan (Chilltrax Mix) 18:10 C H I L L T R A X - Tcc Warm And Tender Ocean 18:07 Xixi Feat. Kwesi - Close To U 18:02 Steven Weston Feat. Lapsley - Like I Used To 17:58 Tomb - Unbound 17:54 Twoworldsapart & Panuma & Nina Carr - Slippin' 17:54 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Moon Boots 17:51 Elderbrook & Tourist - Howl (Chill Mix) 17:48 Finding Mero - In Loving Memories 17:44 Blonde Maze - Night Light (Hessian Remix) 17:41 Everything But The Girl - Run A Red Light 17:36 Two Lanes - Ascend 17:36 C H I L L T R A X - Retsyn 17:30 Arley & Sirolf - One Day 17:25 Morcheeba - Oh Oh Yeah 17:22 Aftruu - Falling Asleep 17:17 Andrew Nagy & Joel Winterflood - Little To None 17:14 Pablo Nouvelle Feat. Rio - Wish You Were Here 17:14 C H I L L T R A X - Backward Rvb Where World Comes 17:10 Approaching Black - Sensitive 17:06 Floa & Phonic Youth - Falling Away 17:02 Circle Sky - Love Hertz 16:59 Holen - Healing 16:59 C H I L L T R A X - Slurry Toh 16:56 Leisure Feat. Muroki - Summer Season 16:53 Afterlife - All I Wanted 16:48 Ghenwa Nemnom - Story Of A Battle (Chris Zippel Remix) 16:43 Washed Out - Time To Walk Away 16:43 C H I L L T R A X - Magnifyingglasssogood4u 16:40 Reel People & Paula - Vibe (Moods Remix) 16:36 Passenger 10 - Voices In Her Head 16:31 Sg Lewis Feat. Lucky Daye - Feed The Fire (Kassian Remix) 16:27 Arto - Now You're Gone 16:27 C H I L L T R A X - Valante Io Toh 16:23 Kidnap & Pinkpirate - Things Change 16:20 Tep No & Noak Hellsing - I Won’t Need You 16:16 Giants' Nest - Storm Trap 16:13 George Fitzgerald & Syml - Mother 16:10 Jones Meadow - Expect 16:09 C H I L L T R A X - Street Life Worlds Cc 16:05 Alex Lo Faro - Move With Me 16:00 Mishegas - Temporary Love (Il:lo Remix) 15:54 Trilucid - Cheyenne (Extended Sunset Mix) 15:51 Holen - Breathe 15:46 Nicholas Gunn Feat. Derek Luttrell - Lose Control 15:46 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Dzihan 15:43 Diplo & Black Coffee Feat. Elderbrook - Never Gonna Forget 15:39 Chill Cole - Liquid Life 15:36 Attom & Kwesi - Rogue 15:31 Two Lanes - Searching (Ct Fixup Mix) 15:26 Bronze Whale - Say It (Baile Remix) 15:26 C H I L L T R A X - Something I Should Tell You 15:23 Fløa (Floa) - Pictures Of You 15:19 Lane 8 Feat. Channy Leaneagh - I'll Wait 15:15 Palladian - Zagara 15:11 Royksopp - Me&youphoria 15:06 Evelynka - Letting Go 15:06 C H I L L T R A X - E-chilled-music 15:03 Aether - Jupiter & Saturn 15:00 Attlas & Jodie Knight - Used To The Silence 14:57 French Braids & Matt Hartke - Heaven On Loan 14:51 Il:lo - Cynnes 14:46 Beacon - Until Next Time 14:42 Satin Jackets Feat. Mandy Jones - In This Life 14:42 C H I L L T R A X - The Chillout Channel Redux 14:38 Shingo Nakamura - Falling Off 14:34 Lamorn - Olsen After Midnight 14:29 The Knocks Feat. Muna - Bodies (Tycho Remix) 14:25 Lipless & Blue Noir - Alone 14:22 Lar - Collide (Jody Wisternoff & James Grant Remix) 14:17 Claptone - Under The Moon (Cassius Remix) 14:17 C H I L L T R A X - Cleanliness Don't You Agree 14:13 Vandelux - All I've Ever Known 14:10 Nils Hoffmann Feat. Gordi - No One Else 14:06 Woven - Brushes 14:01 Eli & Fur - You And I 14:01 C H I L L T R A X - Glitchy Toh 13:57 Feiertag - Didn't Know Why (You Lost Your Soul) 13:53 Two Lanes - Movement 13:47 Dom Dolla & Mansionair - Strangers (Flight Facilities Remix) 13:43 R Plus & Faithless Feat. Amelia Fox - It's Enough (The Last High) 13:42 C H I L L T R A X - Take Me Away! 13:37 Steven Weston Feat. Tae - Same Dream 13:33 Elderbrook & Emmit Fenn - I’ll Find My Way To You 13:29 Duckmaw - Distant Worlds 13:24 Darius Feat. Benny Sings - Rise (Darius Remix) 13:19 Rhye - Feel Your Weight (Poolside Remix) 13:18 C H I L L T R A X - Escape The Noise 13:15 Sum Wave - Milkyway 13:12 Alampa - Playoff 13:08 Rezident - Wellenlainge 13:05 Dreem - Miles Away 13:05 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Freesound 13:01 Tep No Feat. Starzun - Hold Me 12:58 Gus, Nuage - The Place We Know (Original Mi 12:55 Flexible Fire - Marea Turquesa 12:50 Nicolas Godin - The Border 12:50 C H I L L T R A X - Jimpster 1 12:47 Jones Meadow & Clara Mendes - Em Baixo 12:43 Royksopp Feat. Astrid S - Just Wanted To Know 12:39 Satin Jackets Feat. Tailor - Relapse 12:35 False Intentions - Good Liar 12:30 John Monkman Feat. Liz Cass - Open Frontier 12:30 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Cymbal Roll Bass 12:26 Jako Diaz & Leyet - Only You 12:22 Sons Of Maria - Always 12:17 Floa & Ra5im - Give Me A Second 12:12 Alison Goldfrapp - The Beat Divine 12:08 Reel People & Muhsinah - Something New (Kraak & Smaak Remix) 12:08 C H I L L T R A X - World Comes To Chilltrax.com 12:02 Leaving Laurel - There Is Beauty When You Allow Yourself To See 11:58 Monkey Safari - Temple 11:55 Lp Giobbi Feat. Caroline Byrne - Another Life 11:52 Holen - Not Too Late 11:47 Boehm - Who You Are 11:47 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Moon Boots 11:44 Tycho Feat. Rum.gold - Run Away 11:40 Sebastian Davidson - Nomads 11:35 Royksopp & Susanne Sundfor - Oh, Lover (Nto Remix) 11:30 Eli & Fur - Better In The Dark 11:26 Gramatik - Chillaxin' By The Sea 11:26 C H I L L T R A X - Cool Refreshed Smooth As Can Be 11:22 Kx5 & Sofi Tukker - Sacrifice (St Mix) 11:19 Zimmer Feat. Panama - Make It Happen 11:15 Rocket Empire - Astoria 11:10 Emmit Fenn & Shallou - Hollow 11:06 Everything But The Girl - Caution To The Wind 11:06 C H I L L T R A X - Worlds Chillout Channel (Chillout Channel) 11:01 Sao Miguel Feat. Sebastian Reynoso - Hope In Balance (Wisternoff-grant Remix) 10:58 Elderbrook & Tourist - Howl (Chill Mix) 10:54 Ross Quinn - Away With Me 10:49 Volen Sentir & Makebo - Into The Stars 10:45 Heard Right Feat. Phoebe Tsen - Pulling Me Under 10:40 Odesza Feat. Olafur Arnalds - Light Of Day (Parra For Cuva Remix) 10:40 C H I L L T R A X - Chill Out Chilltrax 10:35 Two Lanes - Belong 10:31 Satin Jackets Feat. Tailor - Somewhere In Paradise 10:27 Kraak & Smaak Feat. Izo Fitzroy - Twilight 10:23 Olan - Wake And Return (Little Dragon Remix) 10:20 Holen - Healing 10:16 Morcheeba - Never Undo 10:16 C H I L L T R A X - R.i.p. John Hurt 10:11 Nicholas Gunn & Alina Renae - Angel Eyes 10:06 Vintage And Morelli Feat. Arielle Maren - The Light (Flexible Fire Remix) 10:02 Sons Of Maria - Outbound 09:59 Feiertag Feat. Tessa Rose Jackson - Riptide 09:59 C H I L L T R A X - Slurry Toh 09:56 Afterlife - All I Wanted 09:52 Melosense - Nous 09:49 Flight Facilities Feat. Your Smith - Heavy 09:45 Fabio Vee & Mike D' Jais - Consolation 09:41 Rohne - Flicker (Faodail Remix) 09:41 C H I L L T R A X - Trans Europe Vocoder 09:36 Monolink - Turning Away (Parra For Cuva Remix) 09:32 Joachim Pastor Feat. Nathan Nicholson - Saint Louis 09:28 Alex Lo Faro - Move With Me 09:24 Lost In Pacific & Hanging Valleys - Escape 09:21 Washed Out - Far Away 09:21 C H I L L T R A X - The Chillout Channel, Chilltrax 09:16 Jones Meadow - Fences 09:12 Floa & Phonic Youth - Falling Away 09:09 Attom - Distant Memories 09:05 Lar - Collide (Jody Wisternoff & James Grant Remix) 09:05 C H I L L T R A X - Valante Io Toh 09:00 Attlas Feat. Mango - Over The Water 08:55 Trilucid - Cheyenne (Extended Sunset Mix) 08:51 Il:lo - Ink 08:47 Drama - Don't Hold Back 08:47 C H I L L T R A X - Fresh And Fascinating 08:44 Reel People & Paula - Vibe (Moods Remix) 08:40 Giants' Nest - Crema 08:36 Kaskade - Find Love 08:32 Farius - Coming Up (Hold On) (Dokho Remix) 08:27 Boerd - Blind 08:27 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Dzihan 08:24 Fløa (Floa) - Pictures Of You 08:20 Kelela - Contact 08:16 Chris Malinchak - Control 08:12 Two Lanes - Searching (Ct Fixup Mix) 08:07 Northern Form - Mend 08:07 C H I L L T R A X - Escape 2 Music 08:02 Cahelo - Bananaquit (Mass Digital Extended Remix) 07:58 Hausman & Lumynesynth - Faded 07:55 Attlas & Jodie Knight - Used To The Silence 07:50 Leaving Laurel - The Family We Find 07:46 Running Touch - Why Do I 07:46 C H I L L T R A X - Glitchy Toh 07:43 Shallou - Heartaches 07:39 Dreem - Miles Away 07:35 Sound Quelle Feat. Daniel Robinson - Tempest 07:31 Feiertag - Didn't Know Why (You Lost Your Soul) 07:28 Emancipator - Baralku 07:27 C H I L L T R A X - Magnifyingglasssogood4u 07:23 Elderbrook - Wasted On You 07:20 Sault - Wildfires 07:15 Blank & Jones - Floatation 07:10 Satin Jackets - Don't Worry (Lost Desert Remix) 07:06 Wassu & Mimi Page - Within Me 07:05 C H I L L T R A X - Be Svendsen World Comes 07:01 Deep Lo - Lost In You (Soire Remix) 06:56 Lamorn - Olsen After Midnight 06:52 Drama - Hold On (Rezident Remix) 06:47 Billion Watchers - Rainman 06:44 Lapsley - 32 Floors 06:40 Phello - Timelapse 06:40 C H I L L T R A X - Twcc High Standard Of Quality 06:37 Everything But The Girl - Forever 06:32 Parra For Cuva Feat. Kyson & Beau Diako - Ordel 06:29 Nils Hoffmann Feat. Malou - About You 06:24 Sons Of Maria - It Takes So Long 06:19 Kaskade & Inpetto - How Long (Kaskade's Ice Mix) 06:19 C H I L L T R A X - Tcc Warm And Tender Ocean 06:14 Arley & Sirolf - One Day 06:10 Andre Aguado - Through The Night 06:06 Holen - Breathe 06:03 Attom & Blonde Maze - I Think About 06:03 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Freesound 05:59 Gus, Nuage - The Place We Know (Original Mi 05:56 Finding Mero - In Loving Memories 05:53 Mansionair & Kim Tee - Next High 05:48 Nicholas Gunn Feat. Chris Howard - Thought Of You 05:43 Eric Hilton - Forming Star 05:43 C H I L L T R A X - Parents Magazine Seal 05:39 Kidnap & Pinkpirate - Things Change 05:35 Shallou & Daya - Older 05:31 False Intentions - Good Liar 05:27 Kelela - Enough For Love 05:22 Lane 8 Feat. Lulu James - Loving You (Moon Boots Remix) 05:21 C H I L L T R A X - Chilltrax - Chill Out Piano 05:16 Emi Ca - Just Breathe 05:12 George Fitzgerald & Syml - Mother 05:09 Chris Malinchak - Cellophane 05:06 Chill Cole - Liquid Life 05:06 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Cymbal Roll Bass 05:01 Two Lanes - Never Enough 04:58 Lp Giobbi Feat. Caroline Byrne - Another Life 04:55 Tomb - Unbound 04:52 Henry Green Feat. Andreya Triana - Tide 04:52 C H I L L T R A X - Worlds Chillout Channel (Chillout Channel) 04:47 Booka Shade & Satin Jackets - Fusion Royale 04:44 Morcheeba - The Moon (Kutiman Remix - Version B) 04:39 Meeting Molly - Gerda 04:34 Zaven - Voliere Amplitude 04:28 Delerium And Mimi Page - Blue Fires 04:28 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Moon Boots 04:24 Eli & Fur - Where I Find My Mind 04:20 Eloi El - Stick Together (Blonde Maze Remix) 04:15 Melosense - Story To Remember 04:12 Kx5 & Sofi Tukker - Sacrifice (St Mix) 04:07 Cinnamon Chasers - Surviving The Fire 04:07 C H I L L T R A X - Ct The Backward Chillout Channel 04:02 Leaving Laurel - There Is Beauty When You Allow Yourself To See 03:57 Missfeat - The World Before (Niko Garcia Remix) 03:53 Elderbrook & Tourist - Howl (Chill Mix) 03:50 Rocket Empire - Lima 03:46 Royksopp Feat. Astrid S - Let's Get It Right 03:45 C H I L L T R A X - Slurry Toh 03:41 Christian Burns - Everywhere 03:38 Flexible Fire - Amatista 03:34 Blonde Maze - Daydream (Otherwise Fine Remix) 03:31 Alampa - Playoff 03:27 Four Tet - Lush 03:27 C H I L L T R A X - Something I Should Tell You 03:22 Steven Weston Feat. Tae - Same Dream 03:18 Fhin Feat. Sahara - Fallin' Fallin' 03:13 Palladian - Zagara 03:10 Sebastian Davidson Feat. Lewyn - Second Hand Love 03:04 Dj San & Sebastian Moore - In Your Eyes 03:04 C H I L L T R A X - Escape The Noise 03:01 Sum Wave - Evening Mood 02:58 Afterlife - All I Wanted 02:54 Sultan Shepard - Sirens 02:51 Everything But The Girl - Run A Red Light 02:46 Bonsaye - Viaje 02:46 C H I L L T R A X - Magnifyingglasssogood4u 02:42 Xixi Feat. Kwesi - Close To U 02:38 Ry X & Olafur Arnalds - Oceans 02:34 Arto - Now You're Gone 02:29 Jean Vayat & Evelynka - My Soul 02:23 Disclosure Feat. Jamie Woon - January (Finnebassen Remix) 02:23 C H I L L T R A X - Comes To Chill Out 02:20 Giants' Nest - Heart Void 02:17 Jones Meadow & Clara Mendes - Em Baixo 02:11 Roisin Murphy - Assimilation 02:08 Lar - Collide (Jody Wisternoff & James Grant Remix) 02:08 C H I L L T R A X - Valante Io Toh 02:03 Mass Digital - Thoughts Of U 01:58 Trilucid - Cheyenne (Extended Sunset Mix) 01:54 Heard Right & Fløa - Enough 01:51 Cannons - Hurricane 01:51 C H I L L T R A X - Jimpster 1 01:47 Jan Blomqvist & Malou - Alone 01:41 Sons Of Maria - Close To Me 01:36 Il:lo - Cynnes 01:32 Satin Jackets & Panama - The Future 01:28 Helicopter Girl - Angel City 01:28 C H I L L T R A X - Worlds Chillout Channel (Chillout Channel) 01:23 Max Cooper - A Model Of Reality (Tor Remix) 01:19 53 Thieves - Lyd 01:16 Odsen - Retrospective 01:11 Alison Goldfrapp - The Beat Divine 01:06 Elderbrook - The End 01:06 C H I L L T R A X - Street Life Worlds Cc 01:03 Melosense - Nous 00:57 Washed Out - Hide (Amtrac Remix) 00:54 Fløa (Floa) - Pictures Of You 00:49 Ghenwa Nemnom - Story Of A Battle (Chris Zippel Remix) 00:45 Alampa - The One 00:45 C H I L L T R A X - Glitchy Toh 00:40 Blank & Jones - Alone In This Rhythm (Ben Macklin Remix) 00:37 Sebastian Davidson - Nomads 00:34 Emmit Fenn - What Falling In Love Is For 00:30 Reel People & Paula - Vibe (Moods Remix) 00:27 Passenger 10 - All I Have 00:26 C H I L L T R A X - Cleanliness Don't You Agree 00:22 Nicholas Gunn & Alina Renae - Angel Eyes 00:17 Kayobe & Zoe Sky Jordan - No Sympathy 00:13 Rocket Empire - Astoria 00:09 Leisure - Take You Higher (Serebii & Arjuna Oakes Remix) 00:05 R Plus & Faithless Feat. Amelia Fox - It's Enough (The Last High) 00:05 C H I L L T R A X - E-chilled-music 00:01 Sultan Shepard - Sirens

[exeuntstormtroopers]

An Emery Ashworth for your Children of Hypnos needs. #childrenofhypnos #nightmarehunters #drawing #author #writing https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch2-CiHrEvo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[notonlyamin]

Well now Emery Ashworth is literally lost in a dream, like my bio, such coincidence!

[childrenofhypnos]

Chapter 37: Chaos

Morrigan threw Wes off and ran to the ashes of her doppelgänger brother, now scattering into No Man’s Land. Emery ran to Edgar.

He lay sprawled on the cracked earth, eyes closed. Emery put her hand on his chest but was too panicked to feel a heartbeat. She put her cheek near his lips. Soft breath curled over her skin.

He was alive. But hunters weren’t supposed to collapse after they killed their doppelgängers.

“Edgar.” She brushed his hair back, tried to smooth the red blotches from his cheeks. His skin was still wet from his tears. “Edgar, wake up.”

He didn’t.

“Emery!” Wes came up behind her, blood streaming from his broken nose, his eyes on Morrigan. Emery scooped up the Peacemaker close to Edgar and swung around, but Morrigan was already disappearing into the waking world with another blood-curdling scream.

Emery lunged for her other gun, several feet away, and shoved both in their holsters. She grabbed Edgar and hoisted him into her arms. He felt too light, like his insides had been scooped out. Wes was already opening his gateway; those two huge black eyes formed and stared at them as they passed back into the waking world.

Screams bubbled into existence as they emerged. A hand grabbed Emery when she got to the other side. Wes fell to the ballroom floor beside her, but Joel helped Emery support Edgar’s weight. Students surged for the ballroom doors. Joel’s face was pale as he looked from her to Edgar to Wes and back again, his hair askew, a shallow cut in his temple leaking blood down the side of his face.

“Em, what happened? Are you okay? Is Edgar…?”

“Where is she, Joel? Did you see her come out?”

“Em, your throat. Your face. Did she do that?”

“Joel, you need to leave—”

“Hey, Jojo!”

Joel spun. His arms came out to barricade Emery and Edgar behind him. Morrigan stood on his other side, her hair swirling angrily around her, her profile turned green by the moonlight coming in through the windows. Emery felt Joel freeze, his muscles rigid and his breath caught. Morrigan grabbed his collar. Emery fumbled for her guns, but Edgar’s arms slipped free first, then his legs, and there was a tangle of limbs and Morrigan was close enough that her hair was curling around Joel’s face and she was whispering something to him and then she stared at Emery over his shoulder.

A wet, thick impact.

Joel’s soft wheeze.

The arch of his back.

Morrigan jerked, and something tore and ripped and blood gushed onto the floor between Joel’s feet, followed a moment later by a long rope of pale intestine. Morrigan stepped back. Blood coated her left arm just past the wrist. Joel’s arms fell and came together across his stomach. He began to turn, eyes searching until he found Emery. The front of his white shirt was stained crimson around the new hole in his abdomen.

“Em,” he said, and coughed. Blood splattered Emery’s face.

Joel fell as he turned, legs twisting, and collapsed in a pile of his own organs.

“Joel.” She felt like she must have screamed it, but there came no noise. She sank to her knees at his feet, laying Edgar out on the floor, reaching for Joel’s shiny prince charming boot. Blood spread around him. It reached his limp hand and pooled around his fingers.

Morrigan stood over them.

“I will kill everything you love—” she began.

Emery drew a revolver and fired. Morrigan cut off with a squeak, stumbling back; a perfect little hole appeared in the center of her chest, and Dream essence began pouring from it. Emery’s revolver turned warm with the firing of her final bullet, the one that drove a mental spike through her temple. Morrigan looked down at the hole in her chest. Looked at Emery as Emery stood on trembling legs.

With her lips curling back from her teeth, Morrigan said, “You’re supposed to aim for the head.”

She lunged.

“Emery, duck!”

Emery let her legs buckle. She fell beside Edgar and Joel just as Wes’s war hammer smashed into Morrigan, sending her sliding through the debris on the polished ballroom floor. She sailed through the remains of the refreshments table.

"Run!" Wes faced Morrigan and glanced back at Emery. Blood coated the lower half of his face from his broken nose. "I can hold her off for a little while."

How could she run, with Joel staring at the ceiling and his innards splayed across the floor? How could she, with Edgar alive but unreachable, nothing but a soft target on the ground to be trampled?

Wes restrained Morrigan under a series of dreamform chains that slithered out of the floor and held her thrashing form among bowls of overturned potato chips and a lake of punch.

“She’ll kill you to get out of here,” Emery said. “She’ll hurt you.”

“She’ll kill me if you’re still standing here, so it doesn’t matter! Run!”

The screams of the students still came from the entry hall, so Emery bolted the other direction, for the broken windows that led to Fenhallow Woods. Morrigan yelled somewhere behind her.

She leaped through the window and crashed into the overgrown bushes at the back of the manor. Burrs and brambles caught on her hair and armor, opening cuts on her face. Pain jarred up her leg. Emery scrambled to her feet. The sides of the manor seemed so far away. There were no more nightmares swooping through the air, but the clouds still swirled overhead and the eerie green moonlight glowed through the trees.

Grandpa.

He would help. He had to help. Even after everything, he wouldn’t let Morrigan take her over, and he’d know what to do about Edgar. But she had to get down to campus first.

A window shattered behind her.

“I’m really going to enjoy having our body!”

Footsteps cracked dried leaves and twigs behind her. She stumbled around the side of the manor and felt the graze of fingertips on the back of her neck. Emery jerked forward. The knee of her wounded leg buckled, and she toppled sideways down the slope at the side of the manor, into the woods, where she grabbed a fallen tree branch and yanked herself up and kept running.

The ground dipped and lurched. Emery’s vision swam. She ducked between trees, crashed through foliage, and tried to double back on her own path to find the lights of Fenhallow Academy, but Morrigan’s foosteps never faded. She wanted to reach for her guns, wanted to shoot with abandon into the darkness behind her, but to fire another bullet would be to start tearing into her own subconscious.

A shape flashed between the trees. The form of a boy with a furred hood and the face of a fox. He disappeared a second later, but Emery knew the downed tree he’d stood beside, and she jackknifed that direction, sending Morrigan skidding through the underbrush behind her.

The students of Fenhallow had fed the Wilmark Fox well. It had gotten faster and more vicious since its arrival on campus, and as Emery sprinted headlong for it, its human eyes fixed on her behind its mask.

“Hey!” she yelled.

The Fox screamed.

Emery braced herself, dropped, and slid beneath the propped-up trunk of the downed tree just as the Fox braced a foot atop it and vaulted over. Morrigan let out a startled yell. Bodies collided and crashed into the underbrush, and Emery, her leg screaming with pain, pulled herself up again and wheeled around to run back uphill, back toward the manor.

Morrigan and the Fox tore through the forest floor, tangled together, clawing at each other with nails that gleamed in the green light. Emery left them behind. The Fox’s shrieks carried through the night air, growing more distant. Then closer. It was moving. The forest quaked. Her head pounded and her sense of the Dream faded in and out with the rhythm. A gap formed in the trees. Something big loomed up behind her, then disappeared. She spilled out of the woods and into the wide drive in front of the manor, where most of the school now stood, staring up at the sky.

They turned to her.

Wes shoved his way through the crowd, hammer in one hand, rounding the base of Eamon Ashworth’s statue. “Emery!”

Something dark flashed past him. He hissed and dropped his hammer. Dark hair swirled around his neck and shoulders, and his arms were drawn back and locked behind him. A pale hand and two sharp fingers pressed to his throat. Everyone around them went still, unmoving.

Morrigan’s face rose behind Wes’s shoulder.

Emery had already drawn her gun.

“You’ve got nothing left.” The words echoed in Emery’s mind, as if Morrigan was speaking directly into her head. “You have nothing to fight me with. You are the product of the scourge that has plagued the dreamforms for centuries. You don’t deserve that body.”

You killed Joel.

You hurt Edgar.

Emery couldn’t get the words out. Pressure ballooned out through every part of her, filling her throat, her head, her chest. The end of the revolver was still. Morrigan’s nails pierced Wes’s throat.

Wes mouthed, “Shoot her.”

Shoot it, Edgar.

Shoot it.

Shoot it.

The man appears. She shoots him. She screams.

A neat round hole in the forehead.

She squeezed the trigger.

The bullet leaving the chamber was like a scalpel slicing off part of her brain. Purple light streaked across the clearing. Fire swept through Emery’s skull. Morrigan screamed. Wes broke free of her grip and flung himself sideways. The side of Morrigan’s face leaked clouds of purple and azure. She screamed, stumbling backward. Emery raised her gun to shoot again, but the gun was gone from her hand, it was on the ground in front of her, her vision was splitting and her hand touched stone instead of metal.

Morrigan didn’t collapse, or wither, or turn to ash and float away on the air.

She gave a final wail, dissolved into cloudy essence, and returned to the Dream.

(Next time on The Children of Hypnos -------> sandman)

[childrenofhypnos]

Chapter 36: Russian Lullaby

Emery moved as fast as she could, but the explosion had torn away the last of her adrenline and her leg ached with every step. Emery pulled out her phone and called Joel.

“Em?” He said, breathless. “Where are you?”

“On our way up to the manor.”

“This is—um—shit—this is freaking me out a little, gotta be honest.” More voices swelled over Joel’s drowning him out for a moment.

“We’re almost there. Is Edgar around?”

“Yeah, I just saw him in the crowd, but—uh—where did you say you were again?”

“Coming up the path in the woods.”

“Uh.”

“What is it?”

“I thought I just saw you, but it’s chaos here—”

Emery hung up.

The path through Fenhallow Woods was lit by the same lanterns that had led the way from the dorms, and green light filtered in through the trees overhead. For a terrifying moment Emery felt like she was back in Klaus’s dream, and the trees swam around her. She reached out for Wes, who put a hand between her shoulders and helped push her forward.

“Only a little farther,” he said. She wanted to hug him for not telling her to stop. He wasn’t doing amazing himself: his steps had gotten sluggish, his hair was matted to his forehead, and bags of exhaustion had formed under his eyes. Though he kept a tight grip on his hammer, it hung lower than usual.

The top of the statue of Eamon Ashworth was the first thing to crest the hill against the green sky. The dark forms of little bats flitted around it. The ground in front of the manor house had been gouged by claw marks and pools of acid; the manor itself stood beyond, lights blazing in its windows like fires inside a face. At the foot of the Fenhallow Manor entrance stood Marcia, wearing full armor and in combat with several green-eyed dogs, swinging a battle axe bigger than she was. The axe swept through all three dogs, cutting clean through them and spilling green blood across the ground. As the axe came around, it shrank to the size of Wes’s hammer.

More dreamhunters fought around the perimeter of the house, fending off bats and dogs and quill-beasts. Veronica Lash speared a porcupine through the stomach with her naginata and chucked it at a tightly-packed group of bats. Isaiah Howard fended off a drooling dog with his sword and shield as his brother Samuel appeared out of the shadows of the house and leaped onto the creature’s back, pinning it to the ground and driving his daggers through the base of its skull. A dark form appeared on the roof, two wicked silvery hammers flashing in her hands, swiping through bat after bat. Wes looked up at her, growling: “Ridley!”

“Is he awake?” Marcia yelled when she saw them approaching. Her axe stilled in the air, covered in glowing green acid blood.

“Yes!” Emery charged past her, up the manor steps. Students in costumes packed the entry hall and the twisted staircases. Emery shoved her way through, yelling for Edgar, but everywhere she looked there were only frightened faces and confusion, jostling limbs and reaching hands. She and Wes shoved their way through the doors of the ballroom, where even more students were still packed. The refreshments table in the corner had been upended. Two of the ballroom windows had been shattered, the glass scattered across the floor The students lined the outside of the room, staring at Emery and Wes as they walked in. Then staring just at Emery.

In the center of the room, Joel stood alone, still wearing his prince outfit. He held his hands out in front of himself, like he’d just lost something.

“Em,” he said, face pale, voice shaky, “he was right here, Em. She took him. She looked like you, but her hair was—and she just came up and grabbed him from me.”

Emery spun to Wes. “Did they give you DreamLess when they took you to the cells?”

“No. Uncle Ares thinks I’m like him and Marcia—he thinks I can’t dreamform.”

“Make a gateway.”

The eyes of the room fixed on Wes as he stepped forward. Klaus’s storm had pulled the Dream so close to the waking world that its pressure coalesced quickly in front of Wes. He drove his hammer forward into it; the hammer head disappeared through a shimmering veil in the air. Then he ripped it sideways.

The gateway formed in the middle of the Fenhallow ballroom, a perfect black at its swirling center, and on either side of it opened two very real, very large eyes, standing upward on their corners. They swiveled in their nonexistent sockets; their irises and pupils were the same pure black as Wes’s eyes. Several people gasped and pressed themselves closer to the walls and the people around them. Emery, ready to spring through the portal, hesitated. The eyes swiveled different directions to fix on her. The pressure of the Dream followed them, like the Dream itself was using Wes’s gateway to look at her.

She snarled at it, grabbed Wes’s hand, and charged through the portal.

~

Her window waited for them inside the Dream. They stepped through. Emery ignored the view of Moscow, the gently falling snow, the hedges that now rose on all sides, twisted and dark, monsters with gaping maws. She ignored her parents in the ballroom and Wes smashed open the door to the courtyard with his hammer. The entire door exploded into a flurry of snow. Here, too, the shrubs curled upward in dark shapes,  curling together in high arches to create a corridor down the pathway. At the end of the path was the gazebo, and inside the gazebo, Morrigan stood holding Edgar’s neck and bending him over the inert form of his doppelgänger, propped up once again against the bench.

Edgar, tears streaming down his blotchy cheeks, saw Emery and Wes approaching and cried out.

Emery whipped out a Peacemaker and fired.

The bullet sheared through Morrigan's jaw. At Edgar's cry, she'd jerked her head to the side. Dream essence spilled through the wound. Before Emery could fire again, Morrigan had dropped Edgar and darted forward. She moved so fast, Emery didn't shoot at her for fear she'd miss; Morrigan's hand wrapped around her wrist and wrenched the Peacemaker away, and Morrigan threw her full weight forward.

They toppled to the ground. Emery grabbed at Morrigan's hair, yanking her head back. Morrigan's screams rattled the Dream around them, throbbing through Emery's head.

Then gold glinted at the corner of Emery's eye. Wes's hammer swung into Morrigan's side with a thick crunch. Morrigan flew sideways, Emery still in her grips. The two of them rolled across the stones and snow.

“Emery!” Edgar’s voice seemed distant, broken.

"Stay back!" She yelled, just as Morrigan jammed several fingers into her mouth and grabbed her jaw. Emery bit down; Morrigan's fingers were like ice, tasteless and cold. Morrigan whipped them back. Wes appeared over both of them, locking his arms around Morrigan's and heaving her up, giving Emery enough room to reach for her second Peacemaker.

They were too close together, and Wes was right above her. She couldn't angle the gun to shoot Morrigan without a good chance she'd shoot Wes, too.

But Edgar—Edgar stood in the gazebo. Watching. Scared. Edgar was free.

With as much movement as she could manage, Emery flung her gun up into the gazebo. It clattered at Edgar’s feet.

“Shoot it, Edgar!”

He picked up the revolver. Morrigan’s hands came down on Emery’s throat, squeezing. Emery latched onto her wrists and pulled her away.

“Edgar! Shoot yours! Shoot it!”

Edgar's doppelgänger slumped where it was, immobile. Morrigan threw herself back against Wes's hold, slamming her head into his nose. Blood spurted. His grip went slack enough that she ripped one of her arms free and slammed a right hook into Emery's jaw. Emery's head snapped sideways, the world turning white. When her vision returned, Wes had his arms around Morrigan once again, and had pulled her up enough that Emery could scramble out from under her. Morrigan kicked and screamed into the night.

“You’re killing yourself!” She screamed. “You’re killing yourself, you stupid little boy!”

Emery reared back and kicked Morrigan in the jaw, sending a lance of pain up her own thigh, but shutting Morrigan up long enough to yell again, “Do it, Edgar!”

A flash of blue light filled the air, but no sound to accompany it. The struggle stopped as they twisted toward the gazebo. Edgar stood with the Peacemaker raised toward his doppelgänger. 

In the doppelgänger’s sandy forehead was a hole leaking Dream essence. As they watched, a darkness spread outward from the hole, blackening the body, causing it to shrivel and decay the way the Frankenstein nightmare had decayed when Grandpa Al killed it. Edgar’s doppelgänger shrank and shrank until it was nothing but black ash, and the breeze dusted it up into the air, swirling with the snow, off into the night.

The Peacemaker clattered to the floor of the gazebo. 

Edgar collapsed. 

And Morrigan let out a scream so piercing it shattered the Dream around them.

(Next time on The Children of Hypnos -------> Chaos)

[childrenofhypnos]

Chapter 34: The Storm

A funnel cloud turned over Fenhallow Academy. Lightning flashed in its depths, bright but silent. The eye at its center sat directly above the statue of Iltani and Fabian Fenhallow, and through it the green moon looked down, casting a sickly spotlight on the quad.

Emery spilled out of the conference room window, tumbled through the bushes, and scrambled up to hobble around the building. The moonlight and the lightning had turned the campus nearly as bright as day, yet there was no one around; they were all at the manor for Fenhalloween. The Dream pressed down all around her, raising her hairs, but she couldn’t sense any nightmares.

Yet.

She needed to get to the Underground. That was where Wes was, that was probably where they’d taken Jacqueline, and Klaus was definitely still there, falling asleep. Morrigan would have to wait, and Emery would have to trust that Grandpa Al would keep Edgar safe. If Klaus’s nightmares broke out, the whole campus was in trouble.

She needed to warn someone who wouldn’t just lock her up again. She needed keys. And she needed waking water.

The answer, as always, was Lana. The Sleep Research Center, though mostly empty, was still open this time of night, the lights in the lobby on but the hallways mostly dark. Lana generally didn’t do Fenhalloween; she didn’t do anything unless it was research related. Emery hurried down to Lana’s office and pounded on the door.

“Whoa, whoa,” Lana’s voice, slower than normal, came from inside. “Come in, the door’s unlocked. Unless this is some kind of Halloween prank, and then go away, cretin.”

Emery threw the door open. Lana sat at her desk, cheeks red, cradling a tumbler. Sarah Stainer joined her, sprawled in one of Lana’s stiff office chairs, with another tumbler. An empty bottle of tequila and a half-full bottle of Goldschläger sat on the table between them.

“Hey, Emery Ashworth,” Stainer slurred, raising her glass. “Look, this stuff has little gold flakes. I mean, I knew it had little gold flakes, that’s the whole point, right, but I never actually drank it before. Love it. Amazing. Truly the drink of champions.”

Emery ignored her. “Lana, have you looked outside?”

Lana frowned into the vague distance. “No. Why?”

“I think Klaus is falling asleep.”

Stainer hiccupped. “Klaus? Like Klaus Warwick? I haven’t seen that guy in years—is he here? I thought he was dead.”

Lana focused on Emery. “Why do you say that?”

“Come outside with me.”

Lana and Stainer both followed her back outside. There were still no nightmares, but Lana’s face went paler than Emery had ever seen it.

“Hypnos, you evil bastard,” Stainer said, looking ill.

Lana turned around and went right back inside the research center.

Emery chased on her heels. “He is falling asleep, right? We need to go down to the Underground and wake him up.”

“He’s not falling asleep. He’s already there,” Lana said, voice back to its quick sober clip. “We need waking water. He’ll be asleep for a long time without it. When did this start? Did the clouds move in or did they form over the campus? Have you noticed any nightmares yet?”

“I don’t know, I don’t know, and not that I’ve seen.” Emery ducked after Lana into one of the labs. “How did this happen? I thought he was being given waking water?”

Lana dialed open a lock on a safe inside one of the cabinets and removed Klaus’s own supplies; a small pouch of sand, a burner, a cup, and his vials and droppers. As she sorted through it, her expression twisted into disgust. “Ares Montgomery. He thought the best way to get Klaus to talk was to withhold his drugs for as long as possible. Well, guess what—when you wait till the last minute to do the thing, and something else comes up that you have to handle, you might forget to do the thing.” This time, instead of putting it in the dropper, she handed Emery the whole vial. Then she pulled the keys off the arm of her chair and shoved them at Emery. “Here. You can get down there faster than I can, and they’re going to need me up here for this nightmare-palooza that’s about to happen.”

Emery held the vial carefully so her own shaking wouldn’t make her drop it. If Lana thought something was imminent, it probably was.

They hurried back outside. Stainer was still staring up at the sky. She turned and saw them approaching.

“I puked in the bushes,” she called.

“Get inside!” Lana yelled back. “We don’t know when these nightmares are going to start showing up, and if you’re stumbling around drunk, you’re going to be—”

A dark shape darted out of the sky. Emery’s hand shot to her gun, Stainer’s name forming on her lips, when a streak of purple light shot past her. The beam streaked past Stainer’s head and speared the small form—one of Klaus’s poison bats—out of the air. It sailed a few feet before exploding back into Dream essence and swirling toward Lana. Stainer blinked, eyes wide; Lana, with a gold-and-silver bow in one hand, scanned the sky.

“Get inside, Sarah,” she said again, and Stainer hustled back into the research center.

Lana drew back the bowstring. As she did, a shivering arrow of purple light formed there, nocked and ready.

“They’re coming,” she said. “Wake Klaus up and alert as many of the hunters on campus as you can. The nightmares will focus on the center of campus because Klaus is in the Underground, but that doesn’t mean a few won’t straggle off.”

Emery was already running for the administration building. With the vial of waking water cupped carefully in one hand, she fished her phone out of her pocket with the other and found Joel in her contacts.

He picked up on the third ring.

“Em! Are you coming up? You seriously should, everyone is here. Well, not everyone—Jacqueline never came, and Lewis and Kris were here, but they left a while ago and I haven’t seen them since—”

“Is Marcia there?”

Joel paused. “Uh, yeah—yeah, she’s guarding the snack table. Why?”

“Something real bad is about to happen, Jojo, okay? Tell Marcia that Klaus fell asleep, and there’s a big-ass Dream cloud over the campus right now. Lana just shot one of his nightmares out of the air.”

“Oh—oh, damn, okay, I’m going now. I’m going.”

Emery heard him moving on the other end, the babble of voices surging around him. She glanced up at the sky as she hurried up the long, quote-etched steps of the administration building, her leg twinging all the way.

“Tell her I got water and keys from Lana and I’m going to the Underground right now.”

“Got it, got it—Ms. Montgomery! Emery’s on the phone and—”

Emery hung up and barreled through the front doors of the administration building, nearly flattening David the Receptionist, who was standing with his nose pressed to the doors, frowning outside.

“Tell everyone there’s a storm!” Emery said to him. “Does everyone here know? The campus is about to be swamped with nightmares!”

David’s mouth flopped open and closed. He said, “There’s really no one here right now—just the dean—”

“GRANDPA!” Emery yelled up the stairs. “KLAUS FELL ASLEEP, GRANDPA!”

Then she turned back to David. “Where’s Edgar?”

“He—he uh—I was watching him, but he kind of—”

“David, where the hell is my brother?”

“I think he went up to the party. He said, uh, he said Joel was there?”

Emery resisted the urge to throw one of her Peacemakers across the room. Trust Edgar to be unable to stay in one spot. Joel hadn’t mentioned him. He would have said something if Edgar had found him. He would have done something.

She looked at the vial. Then outside, where a strange and distant wailing had begun.

“Shit,” she said. “Shit, shit. Tell my grandpa to find Edgar!”

Then she jammed her hand on the down button for the elevator, praying to Hypnos she wasn’t making the wrong choice.

~

The Fenhallow Underground was as seemingly empty as before. Only adrenaline kept Emery moving as fast as she was, especially down the staircases, though by the time she reached the bottom near the cells, her thigh felt like a lump of twisted, throbbing muscle tissue. Lana’s keys got her through the door, but Marcia had let them into Klaus's cell before with a retinal scanner. As she stalked down the row of cells, she checked the doors. Each one had a retinal scanner and a keypad below it. And below that, a scanner like there had been on the doors, for the ID cards.

She tried every door. There were twenty-five in all, all the way down the straight white hallway, and every single on led to a small cell identical to Klaus's. The check was quick; scan the card, open, look inside. One after another they were empty, and she left the doors standing open.

In the fifteeth cell she found Jacqueline sitting on a cot, her back to the wall. In the rhythm, Emery almost left the door standing open and moved on. Jacqueline sprang off the bed. "Emery!"

“Really no time to talk,” Emery said, moving into the room to undo the latch on the Plexiglas door. It was a simple mechanism, but with no way to reach it from the other side, impossible to get past. “I can’t believe they put you down here.”

“I can,” Jacqueline snapped. “And look at this!” She pulled her hair back and pointed to a puncture on her neck. “DreamLess—so I can’t make gateways. Disgusting.”

“We’ll have to deal with this later. They have no proof that you actually made a gateway beyond what Kris and Lewis said. We’ll tell them Wes made it and you just came along, and then all the blame will be on us.” Emery was already walking back out the door. Jacqueline followed. “Do you know which one of these Wes is in?”

“They brought Wes down here?”

“My grandpa lost his damn mind.”

“I could have told you that.”

They kept checking cells. Empty, empty, empty, empty. They reached cell twenty-one and Emery kicked the door open in her frustration.

Ares filled most of the room. Wes filled the rest, on the opposite side of the Plexiglas. He saw them first. Ares turned.

“What—”

“Klaus fell asleep!” Emery said. “There’s a storm outside, and Lana needs help!”

Ares paused for only a second, his eyes trailing upward, like he was listening for a sound. He snarled when he felt it. The Dream pressing down on them, tangible even so far underground. He cursed.

“Wake up the Sandman and get him upstairs!” Ares was already past them and out the door, pulling the axes from the tattoos on his arms.

While Emery opened the Plexiglas door, Wes said, “He wouldn’t have left us alone if it wasn’t really an emergency.”

“Yeah,” Emery said.

They hurried to the farthest cell at the end. When Emery opened it, it was pitch black inside, and as they entered, the lights came up.

Klaus sprawled across the floor, dead asleep but not peaceful. His goggles dug into his jaw and his greasy hair fell across his face. His breathing was quick, shallow; his eyes darted beneath his eyelids.

“Get him onto his back so I can put this in his eyes,” Emery said. Wes and Jacqueline rolled Klaus over while Emery carefully unstoppered the vial. She kneeled by Klaus’s head, brushed the last strands of his hair back, and peeled open one of his eyes. His irises made a pale band of green around blown-out pupils.

Emery poured half the vial into one eye. As soon as the waking water spread, Klaus’s pupil constricted to a small black pinpoint. She did the same with the other eye.

Klaus didn’t move for several long moments, though his eyes didn’t close. He stared straight up into the light. His breathing slowed. His fingers twitched against the floor.

“Klaus?” Emery said. “Klaus, your nightmares are attacking the school.”

Klaus sat up all at once, forcing the three of them to fall backward. Black armor bubbled out over his clothes, over his skin, leaving only his head uncovered. His hands became black claws. Black quills formed up his arms and over his shoulders, across his shoulder blades and down his spine. He stared at the spot where the wall met the floor.

“Klaus?” Emery reached out for him.

“Don’t touch,” Klaus said, his voice low and rough.

Then he stood as if pulled by puppet strings, swinging upward by his heels and lighting on his feet. A deep breath straightened his shoulders and brought some of the life back to his eyes. He looked at his claws, at the door, at them. Worry creased his brows.

“Oh no,” he said.

(Next time on The Children of Hypnos -------> Straight-Up Fighting)

[childrenofhypnos]

Chapter 29: Snowfall

Stepping into Emery’s own dream did feel unsettlingly like stepping inside her head. As they moved through the window, there was a feeling in her mind like something had just been slotted into her head, not painful, just strange, like something stuck between her teeth.

The dream itself was crisp and well-formed, like Klaus’s had been, and like his, it was night. But unlike his, there was no forest to be seen. They stood on the sweeping lawns of an old palace beside a wide river, and on the other side of the river was Moscow.

The view took the breath from her lungs. Seeing the palace through the window had made her suspicious; it looked far too similar to the Grand Kremlin Palace to be coincidence, but she hadn’t expected to get here and for the city of her childhood to be waiting for her across the river. It sparkled in the night, skyscrapers and onion domes, pastels lit from below and glass reflecting the stars. The Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the Federation Towers. The rounded top of Moscow’s own Hypnos State training center, the Cradle. Though there were no clouds overhead, snow fell on the city, dampening its sound to nothing.

Emery took a step toward it and knew immediately that she would not be allowed to cross the river, no matter how badly she wanted to. Her dream did not take place there; it happened here, in this imitation-palace, on this estate that existed nowhere in the waking world.

“Is that the Kremlin?” Wes asked, looking toward the horizon.

“It’s Moscow,” Emery said. “A little dream-warped, but that’s it.” She tried to keep the longing out of her voice as she tore herself away from the view, but both Jacqueline and Wes became strangely silent.

The lawns dipped down before them, giving them a top-down view of the mazelike hedges that framed the wide stone path to the palace. Ornate wrought-iron lampposts, crafted to look like sinewy arms spearing out of the ground and holding their lanterns aloft, lined the path, which had been cleared of snow. It looked like something more out of War and Peace than modern-day Moscow, and as Emery, Wes, and Jacqueline started down the path, the hedges and the lampposts rose up around them, much taller than they should have been. Thick flakes of snow fell from the cloudless sky, but the drifts on the ground never got any higher. None clung to their clothes or their hair. When Emery held out her hand to catch a flake, it touched her skin and popped like a soap bubble.

Closer to the palace, the hedge walls gave way to hedge sculptures. They were twenty feet tall, covered in snow, and more detailed than any hedge sculpture had a right to be. On their left: a rearing horse not unlike the horses that framed Jacqueline’s gateway. On their right: The symbol of the dreamhunters, a sword thrust upward behind the closed eye of Hypnos. They walked past, and the next set came up. The left: Clint Eastwood in a poncho and a cowboy hat. The right: Fabian Fenhallow waltzing with a dolphin. Jacqueline scowled at that one.

The final set of hedges came up, and these two flanked the staircase to the palace’s entrance like sentinels. One was Grandpa Al, one hand holding his cup of tea, the other hand resting on the pommel of his dreamform sword, the sword’s tip balanced on the ground. The other hedge was Edgar, arms at his sides, hands empty. There was no expression on his face, but as they climbed the steps into the palace, Emery had the distinct impression he was watching her.

Up close, the palace’s walls were eggshell blue, and the windows and doors trimmed in lavish gold. Russian words curled across the large front doors in gold script.

“What does it say?” Jacqueline asked.

“Find home here,” Emery replied, fighting her strongest urge to run back the way they’d come. It had been a mistake to bring others into her dream when she herself didn’t even know what was inside. No one was supposed to see these things but her. No one was supposed to know. Was this how Klaus felt when they’d been sneaking around in his dream? Was this how anyone felt when they thought about dreamhunters stepping into their heads whenever they visited the Dream?

It was too late now, anyway. There was probably a way for her to get them out of her own dream—or Jacqueline could make another gateway—but the only way Emery knew to escape it now was to finish out the dream itself.

Her fingertips brushed the words on the palace’s front doors, and the doors creaked open.

Candles blazed in every corner of the entry hall. The marble floors gleamed; the ceiling arched high overhead, covered in paintings of angels and demons clashing in flight; and like the hedge sculptures outside, large paintings stood guard every few feet on either wall.

Every painting was Emery. In each one, she sat in a wingback chair, wearing a deep purple gown hung with pearls and sapphires and crystal netting. And in each one, she was missing part of herself. Eyes. Nose. Mouth. A hand. An ear. In one she was bald. In another, skinless. Wes and Jacqueline said nothing as they went down the hall, though their expressions said enough: there was something wrong with her. There was something wrong with her if this was how her subconscious manifested.

Emery ignored the paintings, especially the skinless one, and forced herself forward. To find her doppelgänger, she’d have to stay sharp. There were sounds floating from the far end of the entry hall, through a tall set of oak doors; voices and feet and, faintly, music—a small orchestra. Emery pressed on, and just like the front doors before them, the oak doors opened at the slightest touch.

Inside was a ballroom. Fenhallow Manor paled in comparison; it could have fit inside here four times over with room left to spare, and where the Fenhallow ballroom had an old-world America beauty, this was grandeur on a scale of kings. The floor had been polished to a mirror shine, inlaid with designs of claymore swords laid in beds of bursting wildflowers, cannons wrapped with vines. Doors of frosted glass led the way to a dark courtyard outside where the snow still fell. Columns between each window appeared carved from gold, and each one was a woman with curling hair covering her like a dress, a waterfall cascading to her feet. In one upraised hand she held a revolver, and the guns of all the columns pointed to the grand chandelier hanging from the ceiling. The ceiling of the room had been painted to look like the roiling purple clouds of No Man’s Land.

An orchestra played softly, but there was no band in the room, and all the voices and footsteps Emery had heard in the entry hall outside were gone now. There were only two people in the ballroom, turning slowly together in the center of the room, like dancers inside a music box.

“Oh,” Jacqueline said.

It had been a year and a half since the last time Emery had seen her parents, and the punch of it left her breathless. Her father was the taller of the two of them, long and lanky, dull brown hair falling over his forehead and his glasses shining in the light so his eyes disappeared behind them. A sly smile and high cheekbones; thin hands with long fingers that Edgar would one day inherit. Clamped between his lips was the cigarette Emery remembered from her childhood, the end glowing orange but never growing shorter, and every few seconds he puffed out a cloud of purple smoke that flashed with Dream-lightning before disappearing in the air.

Her mother looked like her, only bigger. Stockier. Her hair fixed back in heavy braids instead of let loose. She had an arch to her eyebrows and a coldness to her eyes that Emery aspired to. That look said Challenge me. She always left her collar open to reveal the thick scar across her neck, and it was open now and she held her head high. Emery had once been small enough to hide behind her legs, though she could probably still do so if she curled up tightly enough. The only strange thing about her mother was that her mouth was closed; if she was awake—and she always was—she was talking.

Liam Ashworth and Zoya Volkova danced in their hunting armor. Both wore the long black coats of the dreamkillers, with the fan of swords and Hypnos’s closed eye on their backs.

Emery wanted to step closer to them, but didn’t. Not with Jacqueline and Wes so close. Not when her parents might turn to her and say something straight from her subconscious, something too personal to share, some deep-seated fear or desire. She was lucky enough already they’d gotten through the rest of her dream without some metaphorical representation of her questioning her own sexuality. She didn’t need them both to know how deep the cracks of the Insanity Prime ran.

“Do you have to talk to them to progress the dream?” Wes asked.

“I don’t know. I don’t remember having this dream.” But it did feel like what she had to do. Like in all the other dream-windows they’d gone through, the logic of the dream tugged at her, willing her to follow the path for which it had been made. Her dream wanted her to approach her parents. It wanted her to speak to them.

It wanted her to ask them if they would stay.

“We should look around before we try that,” Jacqueline said. “Doppelgängers live inside their dreamer’s subconscious before they become active. Maybe they leave behind an imprint, or a trail we can follow.”

As she’d torn herself away from the view of Moscow, Emery looked away from her parents and began scanning the room. Both with her eyes and with her sense of the Dream, though it didn’t seem to amount to much here. In the waking world, the Dream was like a thin layer of atmosphere, perceptible but easy to forget. Some places had a higher concentration than others—like Fenhallow Woods—and dreamhunters, dreamkillers, and nightmares gave off auras of it, almost like they were generating it themselves. But here in the Dream it was everywhere, highly concentrated, pressing down on her. She felt it in her temples, in her ears, even in her joints. If it was any thicker she’d be swimming in it.

The three of them split up. Wes walked one direction along the wall, Emery and Jacqueline walked the other. Emery brushed her hand along the hair of one of the columns along the wall and the gold flaked away under her hand, turning white and drifting to the floor.

“It’s made of snow,” Jacqueline said. “Did you know it was going to look like this?”

“No. I don’t remember this at all.” Emery looked up into the face of the long-haired woman. It was herself, again. Peacemaker raised. “I’ve only slept once a month for the past six years, and I don’t remember the dreams I have.”

“Is it strange not to sleep?”

“Haven’t you asked Veronica all of this before?”

Jacqueline shrugged. “We don’t really talk about it.”

“It just makes the days seem long, sometimes. Gives you lots of time to think. Probably too much time.”

“And is it weird to be in here now?”

“Mostly uncomfortable. The Dream feels like a blanket pressed over my face.”

Jacqueline made a noise and glanced out the darkened window into the courtyard. Snow blurred past.

“Do you feel it?” Emery asked.

Jacqueline shook her head. “It feels normal to me. It feels real. I can sense there are boundaries on this place, but it’s not uncomfortable or strange.”

“Do you ever think it’s weird,” Emery said, “that dreamseekers are born and dreamhunters are made, but dreamhunters can do more?”

“No.” Jacqueline reached out at the next window they passed and tapped a pane of glass. It burst into sparkling snow and fluttered inside, but the wind and snow from outside didn’t start coming in. “You can do more, but we don’t have Insanity Primes. We aren’t weak to the Dream. Hopefully I never get attacked by a nightmare, but that’s what you all are around for.”

Emery snorted.

Then something pinged on the edge of her senses. It was like sensing Klaus in the warehouses, where he was a spot of the Dream in the waking world, but this was an empty space in the Dream. Like Jacqueline drawing up her gateway in No Man’s Land, a space where pressure could escape. Had escaped. And Emery had only felt it after Jacqueline popped the window.

She stopped and brushed her hand over the window, popping the other panes of glass until she could look outside. There was nothing there—only a stone patio that stretched out into darkness and snow—but in the darkness the emptiness took a shape in her senses, like a hole cut in a piece of paper. A human-shaped hole.

An Emery-shaped hole.

Her stomach sank to her knees. She swallowed hard.

“Wes,” she called back across the room.

Wes was already at the far end of the ballroom and jogged along the wall until he reached them.

“Do you feel that hole?” she asked both of them.

They both stopped and turned to the window. Wes was the first to nod.

“It’s shaped,” he said.

“Klaus was telling the truth. It’s active. And it’s not here anymore.” Emery’s own voice rang hollowly in her ears. She’d believed Klaus and not believed him; known he was telling the truth but also clung to the hope that he’d been wrong, that he thought he’d seen something that hadn’t really been there.

Emery pushed her hair back, rubbing at her throbbing temple as she went. “We have to find it. I don’t think it’s in here—I would have felt it.”

“Where else do we look then?” Jacqueline asked.

“Klaus said he saw it in No Man’s Land,” said Wes. “But No Man’s Land is everywhere out there. It wouldn’t go far, not if it’s still so weak it can’t leave the Dream. If anything, it’d want to hide until it’s strong enough to leave. It’d want to stay close to you in case it got an opportunity to attack.”

“We might be able to find some clues,” Emery said. “Klaus’s notebook. In his nightmare. He had her drawn in there, it was because he saw her. Maybe he wrote down where he saw her, or under what circumstances. Hell, maybe there’s more in there since the last time we were there. If he can squirrel information away in his dreams like that, he might have put more in since he was captured.”

“Or taken more out,” Wes said, “or put in false information. To throw Ares off.”

“You think Ares was rooting around in his dream?”

Wes’s expression darkened. “I know he was.”

“Do we have a different plan?” Jacqueline asked. “Because if not, I say let’s go there. You both look sick, and we haven’t even been here that long. If we don’t find anything in his dream, we leave and come back another time.”

Wes didn’t look happy about it, but shrugged and said, “Fine.”

“We need to get out, then.” Emery turned to her dream-parents. They still turned slowly in the center of the room, looking unblinkingly at each other. Pulling herself together, she marched across the floor to them.

She had no idea if this was supposed to be a good dream or a nightmare, but she didn’t have the best feeling about it. They always had new scars when they came home, and Emery had grown up with the expectation that one day, one or both of them might not come home at all. Dreamkillers were powerful, but many of them were sent to fight powerful nightmares, and not all of them came back in one piece—or alive.

“Dad,” she said, calling to him first because he was the gentler of the two of them, the one less likely to spring to action just at the sound of her voice. “Mama.”

They separated and turned to her at the same time, like they’d been waiting. Emery stopped and looked at them for a long moment, taking in their faces, their expressions, every wrinkle and scar and freckle. On a good day she could describe in general what they looked like, but she had no idea she’d kept such a detailed memory of them inside her.

“What is it, my sun?” her mother said. It took Emery a moment to realize she’d said it in Russian, and when she did, the Dream slammed into Emery hard, wriggling in through the cracks of her mental armor. She gasped, clutching her head, forcing herself to remember—teacups, sweaters, Edgar firing the Peacemaker, Wes’s eyebrow furrow, the scent of Joel’s pillow—and when she caught her breath, Jacqueline and Wes stood on either side of her.

Wes’s fingertips brushed her shoulder. “Are you okay?”

“Fine.”

“You shouldn’t stand there, biscuit,” her father said.

“What?”

His glasses still impossibly reflected the light, hiding his eyes, but both his eyebrows rose. His finger rose, pointing upward.

“You shouldn’t stand there,” he said.

The room groaned. All around them, the golden women with the cascading hair that formed the columns of the room shifted, stone features scraping, to shift their bodies sideways and extend their arms up, Their revolvers flashed in the light. Their golden fingers curled around the triggers.

Emery grabbed Wes and Jacqueline’s collars. “DOWN!”

The bang echoed in Emery’s ears as all twelve guns went off at once. From their barrels poured the purple clouds of the Dream, and their bullets ripped through the chandelier’s chains. It fell so slow, Emery had a moment to look up and see it dropping, crystals rising upward, the delicate metal singing in the air. Her parents stood exactly underneath it.

“No!” She scrambled forward, reaching for their boots.

A hand grabbed her belt and yanked her back. Wes. With a heave, he dragged her back across the polished floor just as the chandelier crashed, sending metal and crystal in all directions. Emery ducked her face into her arms, and when the chaos had stilled, she looked up again.

Her parents were gone. Not dead beneath the chandelier, but gone, as if they had never been there at all. The dream dissolved into the barren plain of No Man’s Land. Wes pulled her up under one arm, Jacqueline under the other, and though her legs were steady, her chest felt hollow.

She’d never get to see her parents dead. One day they just wouldn’t come home.

She would have preferred dead bodies beneath the chandelier.

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Chapter 26: Like Tea

It now felt like days were passing instead of hours.

Ares followed Emery and Wes around for the rest of the day, asking them questions about their professors, the curriculum, what the campus looked like in the spring, and even how well the air conditioning worked when it got hot in the summer. Though he ate almost nothing, he’d seemed to come to a conclusion about the food quality himself (“excellent!”), and stopped random students and staff passing by to ask how they liked living there.

The hairs on Emery’s neck stood on end the entire time, the need to check over her shoulder so fierce it felt like her insides were on fire. It was only the outpouring of Dream pressure from Ares, not a result of any nightmare—or doppelgänger—coming closer to her, but rationality couldn’t pierce the paranoia. It didn’t help that she’d lost her edge around Ares. Anything smart or sarcastic she could’ve said died inside her with the worry that he’d glean some hidden information in it. He was a trained spy and interrogator. He could probably get information from anything she said. Hypnos’s balls, he could probably get information from anything she didn’t say.

Wes didn’t seem as perturbed, but then Wes never seemed perturbed. She couldn’t talk to him with Ares around, so she couldn’t ask what else he knew about his uncle that she didn’t. He must have known Ares worked in Argos, and that was why he hadn’t been thrilled to see Ares in Grandpa Al’s office. But if he had known, why hadn’t he said anything while they were fixing Ares’s room? Or on their way to weapons training? Did he think she wouldn’t give anything away without knowing where Ares was from?

Ares finally left them after dinner—he wanted to supervise some of the student hunter missions, and Wes and Emery weren’t allowed off-campus—and the first thing Emery did while they still sat at their table was pull out her phone and scroll through the texts from Joel and Jacqueline that she’d been ignoring all day.

From Jacqueline: What’s taking so long? I thought there was a rush on this thing—let’s go!

From Joel: operation gateway to heaven is a go, meet in kirk lobby

“Joel found a place we can practice,” Emery said. “We have to meet up in Kirkland.”

“Tonight?”

“If Ares is going to watch students on missions every night, when else would be a good time?”

“What if the mission ends early and he comes back?”

“Then we stop and take care of it.” Emery put her phone down. “Did you know that he was with Argos?”

“I—yeah, I knew, but I—I didn’t know if he was here for that or if he was really just here for the review.”

“Even if he was just here for the review, you didn’t think it would be prudent to tell me your uncle was a spy? And that he might, I don’t know, pick up on something? You cannot get on me for thinking my grandpa’s gonna be cool with knowing about my doppelgänger when you do stuff like this.”

Wes held his hands up and lowered his voice. “I get it. I’m sorry, you’re right.”

Emery narrowed her eyes at him until she felt he’d appropriately submitted. “Is there anything else I need to know about him?”

“He’s a huge softie.”

“Yeah, I got that.”

“He knows how to torture people.”

“Got that too.”

“If he’s here for Klaus, we might be shorter on time than we thought.”

“Then we need to go right now and find Jacqueline and the others.”

As Emery stood from the table, a familiar hum roved up behind her.

“Emery Ashworth, just who I wanted to see.”

A new sort of unease tickled the back of Emery’s neck. She turned slowly to see Lana approaching through the atrium tables.

“You sound serious,” Emery said.

“I am serious.” Lana smiled.

“You’re smiling.”

“Is there something wrong with that?”

“You wanted to see me and you’re smiling. Are you going to take out my kidneys or something? Lana. Do you run a black market for dreamhunter organs?”

Emery could practically hear Wes rolling his eyes.

Lana stopped close enough that no one at nearby tables would hear them, and said, “Marcia said you got Klaus to talk. If he’s got a soft spot for you, I need to exploit it.”

“For what? We’re kind of busy.”

“I need to know about this sleeping sand he makes. And I need to give him a little to keep him awake. If you come along, I don’t have to blackmail him into telling me what I want by threatening to withhold his drugs.”

“That’s dark,” Wes grunted.

“So you agree,” Lana said. “Wonderful. I’ll only need Emery for this one, Wes, I’m sorry. Though I do encourage you to try to break into my labs again and see who comes running this time.”

Wes stared at his plate, eyes wide.

“I’ll meet you back in Kirkland,” Emery said, and followed Lana out of the cafeteria.

~

This time, Emery entered the Fenhallow Underground without any sneaking around. She followed Lana into the elevator in the administration building, then through the bowels of the Underground. It was still empty, and as they passed through the main hub with the many hallways branching off, Emery said, “Is this place always so dead?”

“There are other entrances,” Lana said, “and many other sections that are fully staffed. Still, that may only mean two or three people in an area at a time, so yes, it’s usually fairly empty.

The staircases they had to descend to get to the cells had a track on either side that clamped onto the wheels of Lana’s chair and carried her to the bottom. Emery followed behind, and when they entered the hallway of cells, they found a new guard at the door, one of the full-time dreamhunters. He frowned at them.

“I don’t think she’s supposed to be down here,” he said, nodding at Emery.

“Calm down, Luke, she’s for leverage. There are cameras, they’re going to know she’s with me.” Lana waved him off. He stepped to the side and let them into the door.

The lights came up inside the cell. Klaus was slumped in the corner, one knee pulled up to his chest, hands limp on the ground, skin covered in sweat and his eyes glazed over. He looked even more thin and gaunt than before, like someone had started vacuuming out his insides, but stopped halfway through. His breathing was fast and shallow.

Lana paused at the door. Emery had never seen Lana shocked before, but she was now, and she hurried to pull an eyedropper of lavender liquid from a small box she’d been holding on her lap. She hurried to the Plexiglas wall, to where a tray had been installed to pass food and objects to the other side without opening the door. She pulled the tray out and held the eyedropper up.

“Klaus,” she said, firmly. His head didn’t move, but his eye turned upward, as if pulled to her face by a magnet. “You need this. We found it with your things. There’s only enough for three drops in each eye, so use it carefully.”

She put the eyedropper in the tray and slammed the tray back through the wall.

In the blink of an eye, Klaus was on his feet, fingers scrabbling against the metal for the eyedropper. His pupils were dilated, his cheeks and neck flushed. The hand holding the dropper shook so badly he had to cup his other hand around the tip, as if hoping to catch any liquid that leaked out. He tilted his head back, pulled down his right eyelid, and calmed the quaking of his limbs enough to squeeze the dropper above it. When the first drop hit his eye, he sighed and stood very very still for a long moment. He did the next two drops, then switched eyes and did the last three.

Afterward, he collapsed next to the empty bedframe. He still looked gaunt, but not quite so lifeless.

Had it been the three years on the run that had done this to him? Or the sleeplessness? Or the sand—the liquid—whatever it was he’d made to keep himself awake? Maybe it was some combination of all three. Emery pitied him. She didn’t want to, but there it was: regardless of whether he was telling them the truth, he didn’t deserve this. No one did. And instead of at least easing some of the pain, the Ward was letting him go into withdrawal and holding his drugs for leverage.

“You’re going to answer some questions for me, Klaus,” Lana said. “The more you answer, the sooner we’ll give you more of that stuff. The less you answer, the longer we’ll keep it away.”

Klaus let his head fall back as he looked up at them. His expression was smooth for a moment until his eyes focused, and then it crumpled in.

"Lana? Lana--what happened?"

Lana paused looking unsure, then seemed to register the question. "Oh--oh, I forgot, you weren't around." She patted the arm of her chair. "Doppelgänger. You think you have them pinned and then whoom--severed spinal cord. They don't normally hurt their hunters. I think she knew it was the end. Had a couple surgeries, doctors are still looking into options."

"They could dreamform you something."

"Fixing or replacing a spine with dreamforms is almost as difficult as fixing or replacing a brain. And I’d want to do it myself—I’m not having someone build me a new spine just to have it disappear when they die. But I don’t have the time, with all my research piled up like it is. Surgery and therapy will do for now.” Lana sighed, and smiled. “Still, I killed her. Killed her dead.”

Klaus smiled back. It filled out his face a little more, brightened his eyes. “Lana the Dreamkiller. What questions did you want to ask me?”

“You’ve been the one trying to break into my labs, yes?”

“Not trying,” Klaus said cheerfully, “I have broken in.”

Lana’s smile went rigid.

"Your alarm system is good, though; even I couldn't avoid tripping it a few times."

"It's a Van Der Gelt," Lana said. "We've found over half a pound of fine-grain, high-grade sand missing since your spree started. Half a pound, Klaus. That's enough to put a herd of elephants to sleep for a week. You can't be shocked that the Ward went after you. Dump that into the ventilation system of city hall and it'd be considered a terrorist attack. What were you possibly doing with it?"

Klaus motioned to Emery. "Are you okay discussing this in front of the students? I thought the Ward didn't want them to know about all the dirty parts of dreamhunting."

"I can handle it--" Emery started.

Lana held up a hand. "Enough with the jabs at the Ward. Why did you take the sand?"

Klaus sighed and grabbed the edge of the bedframe behind him. Pushing himself up seemed like an arduous endeavor; his arms still shook slightly, and when he finally got his feet beneath himself, he stood as if his bones were toothpicks. He approached the Plexiglas and leaned heavily against it, resting his temple near one of the small circular holes cut into it.

"I needed it for what you just gave to me. I needed sand to make it. I could have gotten the sand myself, but I didn't want to risk the dreamers by skinning their dreams, so I thought I'd skim it off a source that retrieved it with all the proper safety measures."

"You want to tell me how you altered the composition of sleeping sand to keep you reliably awake for so long?"

"You sound surprised. I thought you'd have figured it out by now."

"Humor me."

Klaus scratched at his scruff. "I'd rather not say, actually."

Lana just stared at him. She held up the empty eyedropper.

Klaus's expression turned wary. He said, "I steeped it. Like tea."

"Steeped it…in what?" Lana frowned. "Water? That does nothing. We both know this."

"Not water. Well, not water from the waking world. You've seen the lake, haven't you?"

"The lake. In No Man's Land? The Waking Lake?"

"Yes."

Emery looked between the two of them, nonplussed. "Are you talking about the lake in the Dream? Beneath that big snowcapped mountain?"

"That one," Klaus said. Then, when he noticed Emery's confusion, said, "They haven't taught you about that, have they? There's a reason that lake is the only body of water in the No Man's Land of the Dream. The No Man's Land represents the subconsciouses of all the people currently alive on Earth. That lake, then, is the conscious minds of all of humanity. The more people living on the planet, the bigger the lake gets. You sat there for a while when you were in the Dream, didn't you? It felt more peaceful than the rest of the Dream, right? Felt a little safer? The windows didn't come as close."

"Yeah, I guess."

"A lot of hunters who stumble into the Dream are too weary to notice by the time they reach it, if they ever do." Klaus looked back to Lana. "It was a simple equation. Waking Lake water keeps you safe from that digging at your mind that the Dream does--how it tries to get at your memories, to shove you so deep into your own subconscious you can't get out. Sleeping sand is purely a product of dreams and nightmares. When you soak it in water from the Waking Lake, the water absorbs those properties of the dream or nightmare, but cancels out that clawing effect that puts you to sleep. It clears your mind. Keeps you mentally springy. Like a dreamkiller; no sleep required. And that’s where I got the name: sleeping sand, waking water. Good, right?”

Lana rubbed her temple so hard it looked like she was trying to dig her brain out.

“Trust me, it took a lot of experimenting to figure out the right amount of water for the dose of sand. The two have to balance each other. Take too much pure water outside the Dream and you have visions like some kind of oracle."

Lana carefully tucked both sides of her hair behind her ears, breathing deep, gathering herself. "Klaus. Please tell me you didn't drink the water of the Waking Lake."

Emery froze. "Wes and I drank it," she blurted out. "When we were there--we'd been in the Dream for so long, we drank some of it. Is that bad? We didn't know."

Klaus shook his head. "You'll be fine. You'd been heavily battered by the Dream's influence before that, and you didn't gorge yourself. You had enough to get back to the right mental state." Then, to Lana: "Of course I didn't drink it, not unless I was already in the Dream. I put it in my eyes. But yes--sometimes we have to make do with the test subjects we have on hand."

Lana said nothing for several long moments, apparently lost in thought. In her silence, Klaus looked at Emery again and smiled. She expected a vapid, drug-haze smile, but he seemed lucid. Lucid, malnourished, and still in desperate need of a real shower.

"So the sand really was just for you, for the waking water,“ Emery said, "And that's why the State was after you? Because they thought you were going to use the sand to do something terrible."

"Yes, exactly," Klaus said, shaking his head no. Lana still hadn't looked up.

Lana didn't know. Lana wasn't supposed to know. Klaus held up his right hand. Blood was caked beneath the nail of his index finger, and the nail itself had turned purple and looked in the process of falling off. The shock of seeing it threw Emery off; it took her a moment too long to realize it was the result of torture.

Ares Montgomery had already been down here. He had already come to see Klaus, but judging by Klaus's calmness, he hadn't found anything out.

Yet.

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