Thinkin about Dream telling Hob about his imprisonment and Hob does the whole “I’m so sorry, if I had known I would have come for you :’(” but then Dream is like
“You need not lie to make me feel better.”
And Hob is like “??? I’m not?”
“But you were mad at me, right? For how I acted in 1889?”
“I mean, I guess?”
“So if you had known you wouldn’t have come for me.” and Dream says it so matter-of-factly, like it’s so obvious and Hob is torn between flipping a table or crying.
So then it’s Hob (who is still reeling from the whole imprisonment thing in general, btw) like, arguing with this being about “No, actually, being mad at you doesn’t mean I want you to suffer?? I don’t stop caring about your well-being if we get in a fight I wouldn’t leave you to be tortured for a hundred years just ‘cause you were mean to me”
“I was quite mean to you”
“Yeah sure still would have helped you”
“after you felt I learned my lesson though, right?”
“NO. IMMEDIATELY. I WOULD HAVE HELPED YOU IMMEDIATELY.”
“This sounds fake.”
Hob is tearing his hair out, trying to explain to this eldritch being the concept of unconditional love in the most straight forward way possible while Dream is just










