[Dream Memory: Corridor]
"I walked through the corridor, laughter and singing beside my ears. Holding a column, I looked toward the courtyard, and the world suddenly turned upside down. I woke in bed once more, soft light flowing like water at the bedside."
Elliot frowned.
Dream Memory? What was this?
It was clearly related to the dream world, but he had never seen any corridor.
Had those ruins once been a corridor? But why hadn't he seen it during their earlier explorations?
Could it have something to do with that monster he had killed?
Elliot began searching through the Difference Engine's log.
[You found materials in the dream-] [You, in the dream-] [You killed the Lord of Dreams in the dream and obtained Dream Memories.]
Elliot nodded thoughtfully. It really had come from that monster.
But-why hadn't it appeared when it died? Why had it appeared here in the Difference Engine instead? Could this-be a special ability of the Difference Engine?
Elliot remembered Flora saying that killing dream creatures yielded nothing.
Perhaps it wasn't that they yielded nothing, but that there was nothing like the Difference Engine to capture it.
But how was he supposed to use this Card?
Elliot's method for dealing with Cards of unknown use was-to try inserting them into every slot.
He immediately began trying.
He put his plan into action at once, inserting [Dream Memory: Corridor] into the [Sacrifice] and [Bestowal] slots in turn,
then [Eating], [Conversation], and even [Dream Entry]-
The Card was ejected every time.
"Even [Dream Entry] doesn't work? So-this is just a useless collectible?"
On further thought, that didn't seem quite right. If it had appeared in the Difference Engine, it shouldn't be unusable.
"Wait!" A thought flashed through his mind. "This Card was obtained in a dream-could it