Ruin has traveled to Worlds End to seek help from the denizen of the Dreaming who set him free in the first place...unfortunately, Brute and Glob have followed him thereon the orders of Dream himself! And back in the Dreaming, Lindy has taken on the challenge of discovering who the true Shakespeare is, via a staging of the apocryphal play The Birth Of Merlyn. But when you tell a tale inside the Dreaming, it has a strange way of becoming very real indeed...