Anderson waited. The room was bare. The only things in the room were the bed, a desk and the firepit. There weren't even windows. The room was spotless.
It was not long after Cast left that someone else entered. They had informed him of his injuries.
It total Anderson had two sprains, fifteen factures, and five broken bones. On top of some minor tears in multiple muscles.
After he was told about his injuries, the two talked for a bit. The person was more shocked that Anderson made it to the city than about his injuries, but soon the man left.
Later Cast came back.
"I forgot to give you these earlier. Sorry about that, but here are your sixty four soul shards." Cast said as he laid a large sack on the desk.
"Why are you giving all of them to me? Y'all are the ones who saved me."
"We don't need them. Ever single person here has been here for over ten years. All of us have saturated our souls long ago. Anyway, I will probably visit you later, I want to know more about the current state of the waking world." With his brief visit over Cast left again.
Reaching over Anderson grabbed the sack and opened it. There were in fact sixty four soul shards in the sack. Soon Anderson finished absorbing the soul shards.
Anderson wanted to check the soul fragment count and the runes of his new memories so he opened his runes.
Name: Anderson
True name: [Chaos Conductor]
Rank: Dreamer
Soul Core: Dormant
Soul Fragments: [68/1000]
'Well that boosted my soul fragments by a lot.'
Memories: [Climbing Claws], [Captain's Pipe], [Bloody Fur Coat], [Attribute Dampener]
[Bloody Fur Coat]: [The boy failed to save her. The rabbits, his only companions left betrayed him, consuming him, absorbing him. He became one with the rabbits. Did they really betray him or did they love him more than anything?]
Memory Enchantment:
[Bloody]: [Blood fuels the absorber]
[Blood Sucker]: [Blood makes for a good meal}
'Well that's a sad description and a straight forward enchant. Although that second one reminds me of vampires."
Summoning the memory he held a pure white and fluffy coat in front of himself. It was thick and warm.
'This would have been nice before hand.
Anyway, this seems to be a good memory even if it is a dormant memory.'
Next he looked at the necklace.
[Attribute Dampener]: [Its in its name why are you even reading this?]
Anderson blinked.
'Well that was unexpected.'
Staring blankly at his runes he checked its enchantments.
Memory Enchantment:
[Attribute Dampen]: [Your attributes are heavily dampened.]
'I should have guess.
Wait what rank and tier is this?'
Rank: Ascended
Tier: I
"Holy Shit! Its ascended. How in the world did they make this? Wait Cast said most people have them so how the hell do they produce ascended memories? Just how many fallen nightmare creatures have they killed to make these?"
And yet he could not find any answers to these questions. He could only sit in his bed and wait to recover.
Soon a few days passed and Anderson was informed that it was New Years Eve.
Sitting in his room he hummed, "Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday dear me, happy birthday to me."
Soon he started again, "Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Zena, happy birthday to you."
Zena POV
Zena woke up in her bed yawning, another dreamless night had passed. She sat in her bed for a moment thinking, 'It should be about New Years. I guess that means me and Anderson are eighteen now.'
She sat there for much longer than she should have. 'I hope he's doing well, maybe he already make his way out of this hell hole.'
With her thoughts out of the way she got out of bed and got dressed with the hand made cloths she had been given by Healas. Summoning the Clock Worker's Cloak she left her room. Heading down a large stair case she passed by some of the night shift worker. There were a shocking amount of Sleepers within the Day Clock. There were almost two thousand people living inside of the Clock. The oldest of them having been in the Dream Realm for ten years and the youngest outside of herself being from last years Winter Solstice.
Healas has taken Zena into her group soon after Zena's arrival which made it a lot easier for her to blend into the already function groups of Sleepers.
Healas had a smaller group under her. Only about twenty or so Sleepers. Most groups actually had around fifty to a hundred Sleepers within a single group. The mere idea of that many people in a single function group made Zena's head hurt.
It made sense for Healas' group to be one of the smallest groups though as her group was to be a reinforcement group.
At first it didn't make sense for a reinforcement group to be needed as all the other groups had plenty of people to help but after learning that the groups usually didn't all move at once was it cleared up.
Actually almost every one in a single group was doing something at all times. This left many to not have anyone to help in bad situations.
Healas' group on the other hand usually sat at the front of the Day Clock in order to guard the entrance even if the chances were almost zero for a Clock Work to enter the Day Clock. It also gave them the best location to help any group be it in the Day Clock or more commonly outside the Day Clock.
The only reason this group was able to work this way was thanks to one of Healas' abilities. She made a communication network using plants. Or more actually dandelions. An odd ability yes, but it a valuable one. Healas could do many more things than just communicate with them, but the ones she gave out were all for communication. All you would have to due to think of your message and blow the dandelions away.