"I told you I almost destroyed Pharaoh and me both when he would not agree to be my Dream," Rose says, with a vacant stare aimed past my shoulder. "Notte already knew he could not afford to lose either of us; he knew I was what he needed if he wanted to get his war off the ground. So he made sure I understood where the line was between my needs and Pharaoh's consent. He put me in a dream like this and he let me drown."
