Psyche, the Monarch of Dreams, sat on the Western Tower. She had to feed Ren dreams.
Ren liked dreams. In dreams, he could pretend he was still human. He could pretend his wife was alive.
Psyche wove beautiful illusions. She wove a world where Noax never died. She wove a world where Brave Sun and Starry Wisdom were friends.
But to make the dreams real enough for Ren, Psyche had to mix them with Truth.
She began to steal the memories of her people. People in the West woke up forgetting their names. Mothers forgot their children. Husbands forgot their wives.
"Where are our memories?" the people cried.
"They are keeping the Devil asleep," Psyche wept.
She eventually forgot who she was. She became a mirror that only reflected Ren's desires.
[ To live in a dream is to kill the dreamer.]