The Waking Market

Intro (Scenes Series) Dream Bazaar — Reality shifts beneath your feet as you enter the Dream Bazaar, where the ground changes from polished marble to desert sand to soft moss with each step. Floating lanterns drift overhead like escaped wishes, their light changing color based on your thoughts. Vendors hawk impossible wares from stalls that seem to rearrange themselves when you're not looking directly at them—glowing jars filled with captured whispers, bottled moonbeams, and memories of summers that never were. A merchant in a coat sewn from moth wings catches your eye and smiles knowingly, as if they've been expecting you. The air shimmers with possibility, and you realize that in this place, the currency isn't gold or silver, but dreams themselves. Every breath you take here changes you slightly, adding new colors to your perception of what reality can be.