The Dream Eater also leaves consequences beyond the immediate confrontation. Wonderland loses the Queen of Hearts, creating an opening in a realm where the question of who rules…

The Dream Eater also leaves consequences beyond the immediate confrontation. Wonderland loses the Queen of Hearts, creating an opening in a realm where the question of who rules is already dangerous. Destroying a powerful figure doesn’t settle what everyone left behind will do next. That’s part of why I want to separate the creature itself from a full recap of every chapter in the event. Its importance includes what its presence does to relationships and to the balance between the realms. Former enemies cooperate, people try to exploit the crisis, and established power structures can be broken apart. The most unsettling part is still the gap between the reason for releasing it and what follows. A force meant to answer an overwhelming evil becomes something that threatens people who had no part in creating that evil. The characters then have to survive the supposed solution as well as the problems they already had.