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The city of Yumeost didn’t appear on any map, which was strange, because everyone had been there.

The streets were empty. The usual dreamers—the anxious students, the nostalgic old women, the children chasing paper dragons—were gone. The lamplighters hadn’t come. Instead, a thin, gray fog coiled through the alleys, and from the fog came a sound: the soft, wet shush of a broom sweeping dust. yumeost

Kael’s chest tightened. “You’re taking them? Their dreams?” The city of Yumeost didn’t appear on any

Kael looked down at the pile. One of the reels caught his eye: a woman with dark hair, laughing, reaching out her hand. His mother. She had died when he was twelve. In his dreams, she still made him breakfast. In the waking world, he hadn’t visited her grave in years. The lamplighters hadn’t come

The blank face tilted. For a long moment, the fog swirled between them. Then the Yumeost did something unexpected. It set the broom down.

For three hundred nights, Kael had come here. He knew the cobbled streets of the Dream Quarter, the taste of the silver milk from the Fountain of Regret, the way the sky turned lavender and bled into rose when a dreamer was about to wake. Yumeost was his refuge, his second life—a place where his legs worked (in the waking world, they did not), where he could run until his lungs burned, where the scars on his face from the accident faded like old paint.

You will remember the facts, the Yumeost said gently. But not the feeling. That is the cost of dreaming. To dream deeply is to wake hollow. I am not cruel, Kael. I am kind. I spare you the weight of a thousand lost worlds.