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“Your kind are fueled by the basic fears of humanity.” He drawled. “What do
you call it? ‘The Primordial Dream’? All the nightmares hidden beneath civilization,
culture, and story. Najat here,” the mage nodded to their hostess, “doesn’t
have a human soul. She’s got what some people call a Nahual instead.”
“I’m a cat,” Najat said.
“You’ve got an animal’s soul? Like I have my Horror?”
“Deep in the human soul,” explained Hal “there’s a barrier, a boundary between
humanity and the soul of the world, the animals, even the stars. Your
Primordial Dream clusters around that boundary like… like rock pools after the
tide’s gone out. The animal parts of the human race, where the monsters live.
What you’re sensing is that Najat lacks that boundary. She’s a daughter of nature,
in harmony with her animal nature. You’d find, if you tried, that your Nightmares
slide right off her. And that’s how we’re going to bait him into our trap.”