Episode 35: Enter Sandman

## Synopsis

Bjorn evades a dragon. Henry relives the most traumatic day of his life and runs from the shadowy figure that killed his mom. Sammie kills a massive spider. She thinks she's found Henry, but when she sees through the illusion, he's gone.

## Episode Description

It's time for the next room in Keeper Susannah's house of horrors. Will our heroes be able to keep their sanity and make it through?

## Key Events

* Bjorn evades a dragon and slips through into the next room.
* Henry faces the creature that took his mother's life and barely escapes with his life.
* Sammie fights a spider in a cavern. She thinks she finds Henry, but when she sees through the illusion of the room, he's gone.

## Summary

Bjorn exits the door and finds himself back in his human form. He finds himself on a snowy mountaintop. He hears a noise above him and looks up to see a massive dragon with iridescent light-blue scales. It lands near him and a blood goat leg falls out of its mouth. Bjorn knows that dragons used to be a massive problem, but witches created Dragon Knights to fight the dragons and they were completely eradicated. He knows they are typically blood-thirsty killing machines.

Bjorn manages to find a large outcropping of rock to hide behind before the dragon spots him. He suddenly feels sick again now that he's not a werewolf. He's not sure if it's this place making him feel this way or not, but remembers feeling sick before he got here. He looks around and notices some large blue eggs nearby. He soon notices a wooden structure on the other side of the dragon. He gets the sense again that he's in some kind of illusion. Everything seems to shimmer almost like it becomes 2D but everything feels so real it snaps back.

The dragon is using its breath to warm its eggs. Using the fact that its attention is on its eggs, he decides to try and sneak past the dragon and to the wooden structure where he's hoping there is a door. He makes it about halfway there, directly under the dragon's tail, before he snaps something beneath his feet in the nest. The dragon has noticed him now. It smacks Bjorn with its tail, sending Bjorn flying through the door.

Henry pushes himself through the door to find himself standing outside of his childhood home. Henry immediately bolts into the house, calling from his mom. He smells a mixture of dirt and blood. He runs into the kitchen to see his mom on the ground in a pool of blood. A figure is standing above her, it has no face. Shadows swirl around it. It tells Henry that it's not his time, yet. So far everything has matched Henry's memory perfectly of the day he lost his mom, until the figure stops and turns and says that maybe now IS the time.

The shadowy figure advances on Henry. Henry grabs a knife from the kitchen and throws it at the figure. The knife sticks into it, but the figure puts its hands on Henry's face. Henry feels cold creeping into him form its hands. He manages to break free from the figure's grasp and runs into a different room. Henry tries to see through the illusion of the room, but everything feels so real to him. It's an exact replication of his memory. He's now convinced this is real. The figure grabs him and the cold seeps into him again. Henry uses his claws to slash at the figure's wrist and then bolts back out the door he came in through.

Sammie finds herself in a cave. She calls out for Bjorn and Henry but doesn't get any kind of response. She notices more and more cobwebs around her as she moves deeper into the cave. She comes out of the more narrow space into a larger cavern. All around her, stuck in the spiderwebs she can see the forms of webbed up figures caught in them. She spots a webbed up door at the other end of the cavern and starts to cut her way through the webs.

As Sammie passes nearby a body, she cuts the webs open to see who or what is inside. As she cuts, she sees a shock of black hair and then finds the body of Henry. He seems to be breathing, but is unconscious. As she's trying to wake him up, she senses something behind her. She turns in time to see a massive spider coming down from the ceiling. Sammie shoots a fireball directly into its eyes and then runs up to its abdomen to stab it. The spider kicks Sammie away before she jumps back up rip open the spider's abdomen with her knife. It drops, dead.

Sammie rushes back to Henry and continues to cut him out of the webs. Henry's eyes suddenly shoot open and he smiles before stabbing Sammie in the stomach with one of his throwing knives. Sammie notices that where she's been stabbed, black tendrils are spreading from the wound. She's been poisoned by the wendigo's black blood. She still thinks that it's actually Henry. She tries to calm herself down and see through the illusion to see if this is actually Henry, but nothing changes. She's convinced this is the real Henry. She shakes him and shouts at him to try and break him out of whatever daze he's in.

As she takes a moment to heal herself, Sammie begins to worry that all the bodies in the room are people she knows. She goes around to every webbed up body she can reach and cuts them open to see their faces but does not see anyone else she recognizes. She goes back to Henry and attempts to disarm him. She throws his knife so he can't grab it. Sammie then puts her hand on Henry's face to try and look into his memories. His mind is completely blank. She's not sure if it's because this isn't Henry or because of his condition. She closes her eyes again and tries to see through the illusion. When she opens her eyes, Henry is no longer in front of her and she is in a storage room of some kind. She heads to the door and walks through.

## List of Appearances

* Bjorn Olafson
* Henry Marlowe
* Shadowy Figure
* Sammie Overbrook

## Harm Dealt

 Hannah/Sammie
 Hannah/Sammie
 Hannah/Sammie

## Trivia

The crew chose "Enter Sandman" for this episode because of the lyrics from the Metallica song that describe some of the events of this episode - "dreams of war, dreams of liars, dreams of dragons' fire, and of things that will bite."