Morpheus quotes from The Sandman

My Lord, you are coming back, aren't you?

Morpheus

Why would I not return, Lucienne?

I don't know, a presentiment. As powerful as you are here in your realm, Dreams rarely survive in the waking world. Nightmares, on the other hand, seem to thrive there.

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AAlex

It's… it's you. You're… you're free.

Morpheus

I am. And do you have any idea what it was like? Confined in a cage for over a century? Do you understand the damage you've done to your world?

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You're home, my Lord.

Morpheus

I am.

Forgive me, sir, but … the realm, the palace they are not as you left them.

Morpheus

What happened here? Who did this?

My Lord, you are The Dreaming, The Dreaming is you. With you gone as long as you were, the realm began to decay and crumble.

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I kept a journal for a while. A chronicle of everything that happened in your absence. But slowly, the words began to fade. Sometime after you left, all the books in the library became bound volumes of blank paper. The next day, the whole library was gone. I never found it again.

Morpheus

And yet you remained while others fled, the royal librarian of an abandoned kingdom.

I never felt abandoned. I knew you would return.

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You need rest, my Lord. And food and perhaps a bit more rest, and then you'll be back at full strength.

Morpheus

No. Not without my tools.

Your tools?

Morpheus

My sand, my helm, my ruby.

Why? What happened to them?

Morpheus

They were taken from me. By my captors. And then taken from them I know not where. Nor what I am without them.

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AAgilieth

You … talk too much.

Tell me your name and I'll stop.

AAgilieth

Why would I do that? When there are far more enjoyable ways to make you stop.

Morpheus

[entering the scene of the exorcism]: His name is Agilieth.

AAgilieth

I'm flattered you remember me, Lord Morpheus, after all your time away.

Lord Morpheus?

AAgilieth

He is. Though, I confess, I almost didn't recognize you without your helm. I wonder where your helm could be.

Morpheus

I presume it is in Hell, with the demon to whom it was traded.

AAgilieth

Yes, but which demon?

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My gran used to tell me stories about you lot.

Morpheus

I've known your family for centuries.

Then you know there's not one of us that can be trusted. What do you want with me?

Morpheus

Something of mine came into your possession. A leather pouch filled with sand. I need it back.

Oh, that was yours? Bought it at an estate sale. Didn't even manage to get the drawstrings open.

Morpheus

Where is it?

No idea. Could be anywhere.

Morpheus

We must find it.

Must we? Why is that?

Morpheus

Because without it, my realm will cease to exist, and if dreams disappear, then so will humanity.

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Where are we going?

Morpheus

Hell.

Hell. As in Hell-Hell? Or were you being metaphorical? Because either way, we should probably check in with Lucienne first, right? See how she's feeling about it. I'm gonna go out on a limb, which is something birds actually do, and say she will not be in favor of Hell-going. [As Matthew speaks Morpheus uses his sand to teleport him and Matthew] But I don't get a sense you're listening, so, fuck it, let's go to Hell!

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Morpheus

It has many names. Avernus, Tartarus, Hades, the infernal region you call Hell.

So, Hell does exist?

Morpheus

It does. For some.

Does that mean it doesn't exist if you don't believe in it?

Morpheus

Did you believe in it? When you were a man?

Yeah. … I just didn't expect Hell to be cold.

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Morpheus

The landscape is subject to the whims of the Morningstar.

The morning star? We have to spend the night in this literally godforsaken —

Morpheus

Lucifer Morningstar.

As in the Devil?

Morpheus

The Ruler of Hell is no mere devil.

So, you two know each other?

Morpheus

We've known each other for a very long time.

Morpheus

When we first met, Lucifer was the angel Samael.

I forgot the Devil used to be an angel.

Morpheus

Not just any angel. The most beautiful, wisest, and most powerful of all angels. Saving only the Creator, Lucifer is, perhaps, the most powerful being there is.

More powerful than you?

Morpheus

By far.