Drea Nightmares again. It had been so long since I'd had any like this -- this vivid, this real -- that I clearly had fallen into a sort of naive sense of comfort? Relief? that by saying "no" they'd be gone for good. Sure, the vague, blurry memories of Lu and Solstice and countless others happen every now and then, but not like this. Nightmares with this sort of clarity and detail are on level with Alandras and I thought I was ( mercifully undeservedly) done with that shite. Then again: Barovia. If they were going to come back, it would be here, wouldn't it? Fitting, to say the least. It isn't worth questioning how or why I'm here -- I'm sure I did something to deserve it -- but the others? Bodaway undoubtedly has a story, Ayduin probably has a lot more to him than he lets on, Sylvain possibly something to prove, and Ri-An. Fuck, Ri-An shouldn't be here. I'm grateful they are, but, of any of us, they deserve better, I think. I knew, bef...