“Notions are the stuff of dreams!” That’s the motto of Dream Works; a company in Nod that fabricates and exports Dreams to Earth. Three brownies (Dwindle, Mirp and Twilay) work for Dream Works as dream wranglers. They and their dragon steeds catch notions that are woven into dreams. All is well in this rustic paradise till Dwindle begins to dream of an Earth girl he calls the chocolate child. It’s the first in a chain of seemingly impossible events … Brownies aren’t supposed to dream!
More complications appear when Dream Works hosts a finisher unit … wranglers of a darker sort who gather Specters for a class of dreams called The Quietus, meant only for those about to die. The three wranglers befriend a Valkyrie finisher, Sigrdrífa Grimm who will aid them in a quest they didn’t even know they’ve begun! When Dwindle is injured and falls into a coma he permanently connects with the Chocolate Child and learns her name … Jazarae. She calls him her protector but from what she doesn’t know. Grounded by his injuries, Dwindle works in the dispatcher’s where he discovers Jazarae’s name and date of death in the Quietus Ledger; a register reserved for those scheduled to die. Dwindle is convinced Jazarae’s quietus date has been altered and enlists the pixie Niamh, a former scribe, to cross-check the death date with the master ledger kept at Castle Mildew. They find it has been altered, another supposed impossibility! This touches off a race for Dwindle and his friends to find the Antiquietus formula and combine a hodgepodge of notions and specters never before assembled to save Jazarae. By degrees they discover their task isn’t finished; that they are only pieces in an even vaster game that holds the fate of both Nod and Earth in the balance!
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