How Audrey discovered that her dog had been kidnapped could wait. After helping Klein deal with Creeping Hunger, Alice fell into a deep sleep.
Dreaming was not normal for an angel, but Alice seemed to have been dreaming a lot lately—tonight, for instance.
She dreamed of when she had first awakened in Tingen City, knowing nothing about the world. At the very beginning, she had taken literacy lessons alongside children far younger than herself.
Alice had never liked that experience because her classmates were so much younger. The Alice in the dream felt the same way and could hardly wait for the lessons to end.
At last, her wish came true. She had learned enough characters to move on to the next stage of her studies, but...
When her teacher and classmates adjusted the monocles over their right eyes and smiled at her, Alice leaped out of bed in fright.
Once she realized it had only been a dream, she felt relieved. Then she frowned even harder. Two things she never wanted to connect had appeared together in that dream.
Tingen and Amon.
That hardly seemed like good news. Alice clenched her fists and laid the blame squarely on Will Auceptin.
She did not even need to think about it. He had to be involved.
Without caring that it was the middle of the night, she woke Klein and told him what she had learned in her dream:
"Amon is going to Tingen!"
This was not Klein's first time being woken up. He jolted awake, and his first reaction to the news was to frown.
Going back to sleep was hardly realistic. Klein went above the gray fog and summoned Alice as well. Once her figure solidified, he asked:
"What happened?"
Alice told him about her dream.
This was one