Angel looked out through the window of the ramshackle hut and saw Gray Porcelain and Rabbit Girl still searching for clues.
He had meant to call them over and tell them what he had found.
But after a moment's thought, he decided to hold off until he had investigated that "bubble space" further.
Angel took a deep breath, leaned against the hut's doorframe, and closed his eyes again, entering his god's-eye view.
The instant his god's-eye view opened,
Angel found himself no longer in the ramshackle hut, but inside a pitch-black bubble space.
A dark membrane enclosed the spherical space.
There was nothing else inside it. Only... Angel's body.
His body floated within the black bubble, curled up as though in a womb.
His eyes were shut, and he appeared to be fast asleep.
Angel had seen his own "body" through his god's-eye view more than once, but this was the first time the sight had surprised him.
He had assumed that since he had entered "Nereid," his body would be inside the stage too. That was not the case.
His body was inside this black bubble, while "Nereid" was nowhere to be seen.
Angel studied his body from that unusual vantage point, then sensed a faint, almost imperceptible energy within the bubble.
After some thought, he had a rough idea of his situation.
He was inside a "Nightmare Dream."
What was a "Nightmare Dream"? It was a term Angel had just coined by combining Nightmare Illusion and dream.
The "Nereid" he had entered earlier was not a real place. It was a Nightmare Dream created by the Wonderland Authority.
Put more plainly, it was a vast mental illusion.
It combined the powers of Nightmare Illusion and dreams, and the Wonderland Authority had built it upon its underlying rules. As