DREAMTREADER’S CREED, CONCEPTUS 10

Dreamtreader, you must always know upon what you stand. Yours is not a casual employment, not a trade, not an occupation. Dreamtreading is a high calling and a vital one.

The Waking World must dream or it will languish in despair that there is nothing more, wilting until there is little left but a dead husk. But the Waking World must not be mistaken for Dream, for that kind of vision without conscience, without wisdom, would be chaos.

Should you and your Dreamtreader brethren fail, doom will come to both Dream and Walking realms. People will sleep with no dreams and rise with no waking. It will be as carnal and miserable as a nest of eaglets left to starve. They will turn and consume each other. Some will fly too soon and die in the effort. Others, too late, and they will wither.

Do not let it be so on your watch, Dreamtreader. Not on your watch. For the shattered glass might be glued back together, but it can never be unbroken.