[Which immediately pulls them into that dreamscape together. At first, it's just the darkness, but then the scene unfolds-- mostly in flashes and snippets; first, flashes of Chise's childhood-- her father and brother leaving, her mother choking her, then her mother dying. Then, Chise selling herself into slavery with the hope that she'd at least be useful to someone before she dies. And then, just to top off the emotionally horrifying scenes there, the last scene is Elias buying her and making her his apprentice-- and Elias looks strange enough as it is with the whole. bone thing.]