...My world is full of living Nightmares. Or alien beings that clothe themselves in our nightmares, anyway. A plague doctor of living shadows seems like an agreeable form to them, but then they've never obeyed or indeed understood any communication less than cannon.

I'm one of the soldiers fighting them. Rear echelon, quartermaster and Anchor, but still.

...I don't believe we've been properly introduced. [She sighs, and belatedly offers her hand to shake.] Meredith... Meredith Odetta Baker. Of the Treasure Island ANIMa Corps.