A faint tremor deep within her spirituality woke Angel from her sleep.
"Again... Didn't I already suggest that the captain could go bother Klein next door...?"
Having been harassed in her dreams by a Nightmare so often lately, Angel was already used to it. She threw off the blanket, crawled out of bed, and prepared to head down to the basement to hide first.
...Wait, I don't seem to have fallen into my usual negative state of Fear of Firelight?
With Bloodthirst in one hand and the Magician Pocket Watch in the other, she walked out of her bedroom in her nightclothes, suddenly realizing something.
She carefully lit the gas lamp in the corridor. Warm firelight spilled across the floor and over her face.
That familiar shiver did not come.
"Heh, the captain can forget things even in dreams... Looks like I'm not completely defenseless this time?"
A faint smile curled Angel's lips.
Since this was a dream, she did not need to worry about the negative effects carrying over into reality—
She directly pressed the Magician Pocket Watch in her hand, gaining three Magician Beyonder Abilities, including Flame Leap. At the same time, her spirituality instinctively sensed an open flame downstairs that she could leap to.
Pop—
A burst of bright yellow flame flashed, and Angel vanished from the second-floor corridor.
The next second, she stepped out of flames that sprang up in the middle of the first-floor living room. revolver in hand, hair fluttering, and a smile on her face, she was ready to give the forgetful "Nightmare" a big surprise.
Huh, wait...
The two gas lamps on the living room walls had been lit, but the yellow flames normally produced by burning gas had turned an eerie emerald green, swaying as they dyed the entire room a