![]() Meanwhile, the Furies pull in Hippolyta, who has lost her son Daniel, into their ranks. ![]() The Furies (though they go by many other names throughout) seek to hold Morpheus accountable for killing his son, Orpheus. At the heart of it all lies Morpheus, The Lord Shaper, the Prince Of Dreams. Friends and foes return to the story with their own grudges and machinations. The narrative threads of The Kindly Ones reach far and wide. Stories from the early aughts of the series resurfaced, bringing the huge cast into a cohesive narrative that puts a pin in the world of Sandman as I knew it. ![]() It promised loose ends tied into neat bows. “Oh, this is different ,” I thought at first. Before I slipped listlessly into the Dreaming, I picked up the book and read the first chapter. Points in my Sandman readthrough have sparked questions of a fatigued reader: where is this going? What does this mean? I was struggling by the time I reached The Kindly Ones, and I looked at the volume-by far the longest in the series by page length-only to double down on my exhaustion. ![]()
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