Chapter 2 Summary

In the Dreaming, the realm of Dream of the Endless, a dark storm raged. Dream had just been left by another mortal woman, one in a growing line of women who have left him for one reason or another over the eons. It has been raining for 23 days in the Dreaming, and much of the land was flooding. In the house of Cain and Abel, Abel and the gargoyle Goldie have piled up furniture so they may sit above the water and fish. In the library, Matthew the raven and Lucien talk about Dream's previous lovers. Dream is brooding on a balcony of the castle when one of his gate guards interrupts him to tell him that a visitor has come. Dream tells the guard to send the visitor away, but the guard says that the visitor claims to be his sister.

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