"What about me?" I ask. "Does me being a Dream make me an exception?" "You are important to me," Rose says. "I will protect you until protecting you means putting Pharaoh in harm's way." He doesn't outright say he doesn't care about me; he doesn't have to. Rose waits a beat to make sure I understand, then says, "I have told you again and again: you will cease to care about everything and everyone when your Nightmare is found. Your vampire, your ghost, your dead dragons—they are all background noise. You just don't know it yet." "What about you?" "Perhaps you will hate me when you are reborn.
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