My skills lay in avoiding danger, not confronting it.
[ Not every adult is a demon, kid. What magic he does have leans towards staying out of sight, not taking on living nightmares in a dream realm. Had it been a few regular mortal men, it'd be less a problem, but this? No, he just keeps them both moving up until they hit a roadblock.
The animals that had been ridden before around this particular bad dream had all been large animals, sure, but they'd been mostly contained to one spot. What they come across next, a few steps out and free of the crowd for a short time, is something awfully longer and infinitely more hideous. Instead of a trolley or a bus or whatever equivalent to mass transit the dreamer within this dream has in mind, they find a hulking millipede in their way. It sprawls down along the entire street, cutting a wall through the masses as dreams either climb on or off, everyone waiting for it to pass.
Childermass' knee-jerk reaction to almost running them straight into the damn thing from out of the crowd is to recoil a few steps, still dragging Alois along. ]
Of course... [ He grumbles, prying his attention off of this particular monstrosity after a few seconds of staring, to look for another way past. ] Of course there'd be giant bugs.
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[ Not every adult is a demon, kid. What magic he does have leans towards staying out of sight, not taking on living nightmares in a dream realm. Had it been a few regular mortal men, it'd be less a problem, but this? No, he just keeps them both moving up until they hit a roadblock.
The animals that had been ridden before around this particular bad dream had all been large animals, sure, but they'd been mostly contained to one spot. What they come across next, a few steps out and free of the crowd for a short time, is something awfully longer and infinitely more hideous. Instead of a trolley or a bus or whatever equivalent to mass transit the dreamer within this dream has in mind, they find a hulking millipede in their way. It sprawls down along the entire street, cutting a wall through the masses as dreams either climb on or off, everyone waiting for it to pass.
Childermass' knee-jerk reaction to almost running them straight into the damn thing from out of the crowd is to recoil a few steps, still dragging Alois along. ]
Of course... [ He grumbles, prying his attention off of this particular monstrosity after a few seconds of staring, to look for another way past. ] Of course there'd be giant bugs.