Cheryl is the family scion, the next in line to inherit her family’s status. She tries her best to uphold the family image, but everyone has a limit and Cheryl’s limits are stretched far too thin. Seeing the supernatural and stumbling into a “nightmare” reality take a toll on even the strongest souls. Despite this, Cheryl tries her best to stand strong, even when the metaphorical chains tighten evermore around her.

Marie never felt a connection to the Spiral. She didn’t feel it as a child, nor when she saw her first spirit. She still doesn’t feel it, even when her family switches from the Spiral faith to it’s evangelical Rizen counterpart. Marie sees the “otherworld” as a cold comfort, a familiar hell to distract from the growing strain her family situation is putting on her.

Fiona has always been sheltered. Her best friends were the characters in the books she read, followed by the family butler Anton. For Fiona the “dreamscape” is a welcome escape from the banal normality she’s stuck with. She can’t leave the manor, so she has learned creative ways of hiding between it's seams.

These three disparate people share otherwise impossible things: the never ending nightmare, a sense for the supernatural, and an unquenchable thirst for truth about the Great War.