Lucienne quotes from The Sandman

Lucienne

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

Morpheus

Why would I not return, Lucienne?

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.

Lucienne

You're home, my Lord.

Morpheus

I am.

Lucienne

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

Morpheus

What happened here? Who did this?

Lucienne

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.

Lucienne

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.

Lucienne

I never felt abandoned. I knew you would return.

Lucienne

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.

Lucienne

Your tools?

Morpheus

My sand, my helm, my ruby.

Lucienne

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.