Episode 1 - A Strange Dream

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## Recurring NPCs

Sabri

Crescent Hill, Sayrem. Pashmina Myron is moving out of her family estate. Certainly not by choice. She takes the carriage from the nobles' district to Five Irons. Though it's only the other side of Sayrem, it may as well lie beyond the Veil. Of the many train cars that make up the district, Pashmina's destination is the one called Rail Care, the local doctor's office. Already acquainted with Vee Lasetti, the doctor, Pashmina enters the office with the innate entitlement of the nobility, and ignores the waiting patients with her honed skills of disregarding others. After making herself at home, she then asks Vee to turn the phrase literal, wanting to move in to the train cart complex, and Vee welcomes her friend in need. Taking a break from herding his cats, the Professor enters. He appears more conflicted about Pashmina's arrival and her plans of staying than Vee, though does not object to it. Later that day, in the sleeping car, the Professor greets Pashmina. The two catch up over a glass of wine, recounting the events of the week since they last met – a week since the fire – then retire for the night.

Night falls, and as Sayrem sleeps, the Dream and with it, the time for the Weavers, begins. Instead of the regular, Ministry of Rest-issued Midnight Message, though, people find themselves in a strange dream; an unfocused sense of anxiety, disorder where there should be order.

In the morning, at breakfast, Pashmina mentions the unusual dream experience, in the process revealing herself to be a Weaver just as the Professor and Vee are. They are joined by their companion, Pretty Baby, who voices his concern over Pashmina – another Weaver – staying, to the Professor and Vee. Pashmina then states her theory to the group, that the dream was caused by an inexperienced, young Weaver. This poses a threat to them, as it would draw the unwanted attention of the Ministry of Rest. Pashmina intends to find and help the new Weaver, as she feels her permit is threatened if their unguided actions continue to disrupt the Midnight Message, though the Professor doubts whether her own interests are truly her only motivation. Regardless, the four agree to her plan.

Pretty Baby accompanies Vee on her doctor's visits in the area. The two hope to gauge the area in which people's dreams were affected the previous night by asking Vee's regular patients about their sleep, thus estimating the approximate location of the child-Weaver. The strategy pays off as it leads them to an apartment complex within the district.

Back at Rail Care, the Professor gifts Pashmina a bag of herbs related to sleep. With the Professor's help, Pashmina then goes out to find "reputable" buyers for some of her belongings.

That night back in the Dream, Pashmina pursues her plan to locate the Weaver that disturbs the Midnight Message, using the information her compatriots uncovered during the day. She manages to approach the person, a child in an anxiety dream, taking a test in class. Pashmina attempts to guide the Weaver through their anxiety, calming them, and trying to teach them to take control. With Pashmina's gentle yet determined help, the child succeeds and is officially welcomed to the uncertain fate of being a Weaver. Before parting, Pashmina tells Sabri, as the child is called, to soon expect the arrival of her companions in the waking world, marked by a knock at the door and a code word. She does not mention the possibility of a knock from those without the code word; those that would come to take Sabri, as they take other Weavers.