"If things really are as I think, then all these nightmares were only just born, pieced together not long ago."
That point had been verified. Victoria had also mentioned that nightmares had never appeared in dreams before.
If nightmares really had been pieced together and only just born, they should have been blank slates. How could they have memories of [Spirituality Pressure]?
The most obvious explanation was that these memories had existed before it was divided, and after being pieced together, it had recalled them.
That explanation made sense, but it only made Elliot more curious.
What exactly had these Lords of Dreams been before they were divided? And where had those Great Beings been at the time?
And why did they remember [Spirituality Pressure]?
Elliot recalled the nightmare's movements just now and pressed his lips together.
It clearly had not been cowed by [Spirituality Pressure]. It had clearly dodged all of Vanessa's attacks with its astonishing agility. It clearly could have killed Vanessa at will.
Yet it had done nothing. It had merely bowed its head slightly in acknowledgment to him, then stood right there, as though the incoming attacks did not exist, maintaining that bowed posture until it was killed.
As though whether it was killed did not matter, but acknowledging him did.
Elliot could not understand it.
As for what it had seen when it was still whole, Elliot did not particularly care.
Presumably, it had been some other being capable of using [Spirituality Pressure].
But could it simply have been Elliot himself, or his Difference Engine?
Elliot thought that unlikely.
After all, dreams had always been the most important part of the Supernatural. Reality was merely the surface of the world.
Records of the Supernatural could be traced back almost to the Mythological Era. There had