Literature
World of Dreams
WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS TO THE SEQUEL NOVEL, Long Live the Pumpkin Queen, WRITTEN BY SHEA ERNSHAW. If you haven't read the book yet or want to avoid spoilers, please do not read the fic!! This fic is considered to be part of an AU and not compliant to my other TNBC works. Please keep that in mind while reading! Thank you! The Hinterlands forest is an eerie place, when one is in Halloween Town. It begins with tall, impeding trees - branches following the wind to form unsettling faces and figures. These are tricks to the unknowing eye, but the lands do it intentionally. To make one feel truly alone while wandering, susceptible to scares the creatures can impose on them. Nature purposefully winds down the longer you go, to make victims feel like the world around them is physically spinning . It is a natural delusion - a safety measure set it in place, to drive humans to madness before they’d stumble upon the town. Jack Skellington walked down the dirt path with ease,