Thus, the dreaming doll drifted through her own dreams, floating from one jumbled, fragmented memory into another.
She no longer thought about who she was or where she had come from. "Eileen" and "Omen" became two insignificant symbols, merging into a pure perspective with no distinction between them. Occasionally, this perspective would even "stream" into other dreams—where she would see the towering Spider Towers, the Calculation Center built by priests and scholars as a sanctuary, the soaring mountains and the endless lights of the city below, as well as the girls dancing before the temple and the Sweet Water and egg-yolk cakes they offered...
She saw herself setting out from the Alice doll's Assembly Hall with the first mission since her birth. She saw how full of confidence she had been, unafraid even though she knew she might face a descending Othergod. She saw herself climbing that tower, then bravely charging at the rampaging Otherworld deity amid the distorted space-time at its summit—she saw herself leap high into the air, just as the Falling Star Lady had taught her, striking with courage and determination... striking...
But she couldn't hit its head! Even jumping, she couldn't reach it. Her enemy was so tall, so tall...
Eileen's perspective jumped between different memories and viewpoints. For one moment, she even felt as if she were about to awaken from this groggy dream. But suddenly, she sank into the next layer of the dream—the battle had ended, and everything around her seemed to have settled. She saw the enormous spider deity lying in the temple courtyard, with her own shell lying beside It. During the battle, the doll and the Othergod had reached a deal: through each other's deaths, they sealed the rampaging disaster within a forgotten Different Dimension...
But that had already passed.