In 1916, a hubristic occultist seeking to cheat death performs a ritual that inadvertently unravels the fabric of human consciousness. By attempting to bind the personification of Death, Roderick Burgess instead ensnares her younger brother, Morpheus—the King of Dreams. Stripped of his vestments of office and confined within a glass sphere, the Lord of the Dreaming is forced into a decades-long silence, while the world above falls into a waking nightmare of neurological disorders and lost sleep.

The narrative of "Sleep of the Just" functions as a chilling meditation on the intersection of human greed and cosmic inevitability. It is not merely a tale of a prisoner and his jailers; it is an examination of how the absence of an essential force—the ability to process reality through myth and ...

In 1916, a hubristic occultist seeking to cheat death performs a ritual that inadvertently unravels the fabric of human consciousness. By attempting to bind the personification of Death, Roderick Burgess instead ensnares her younger brother, Morpheus—the King of Dreams. Stripped of his vestments of office and confined within a glass sphere, the Lord of the Dreaming is forced into a decades-long silence, while the world above falls into a waking nightmare of neurological disorders and lost sleep.

The narrative of "Sleep of the Just" functions as a chilling meditation on the intersection of human greed and cosmic inevitability. It is not merely a tale of a prisoner and his jailers; it is an examination of how the absence of an essential force—the ability to process reality through myth and ...