The Sandman x Reader - Neil Gaiman (Lucifer x you x Dream)

20: I'm Not Alive Enough...

(Mentions the Dead Boy Detectives but no spoilers)

Delirium found you, bleeding your very heart out on the floor of your realm. She had wondered where you had gotten to after you just disappeared but when she found you crying in pain with blood all around you and your wings nowhere in sight, she was horrified, crying and cradling you. 
She patched you up, took you back to her realm and the creatures of the Madness helped you get back on your feet.

You were at a very low point in your undying life.

Delirium could see that and she felt so bad for you as she ripped up the scrolls of invitations she had made for her party throwing for you. Though, when you realised what she was doing, you told her to stop and reassured that you wanted a party, she was confused and sullen but you reassured her... The both of you knew you weren't doing this for yourself, that it was done for her sake but Delirium for once in her life should've been allowed this self-present.

You smiled at her as you hugged her and offered to help send out the invitations.

Delirium gave you Death's, Desire's and Dream's invitations while Delirium would deliver the rest.

First, you stepped through a pillar of salt in the Madness, taking you to Antarctica where you see a couple of foxes courting one another over a carcass of red meat. You couldn't distinguish what creature it had been before but all you had to do was jump into it. And you do so.

You know you could have taken the simple way through the sygils of the Endless sibling's realms in Delirium's Madness but you thought that might be overstepping your welcome. So, instead you found your own way through old magick.

You bow your head to the foxes and they yip back as you step into their red mess as they return to their lusting desires due to heat season.
And with animalistic intent, you appear the other side of that blood drenched sex-fest. Gasping heavily for breath you find yourself in the wanted place.

You find yourself in Desire's heart.

*<Oh and who might you be... You're not an arctic fox.. You look to be rather regal... What are you Angel or foe?>* Asked Desire as they meandered in a feline manner down the staircase leading to your position. It was as if you had phased through a wall. And the walls and the ceilings and even the staircase the sibling had arrived from seemed to be made of plastic. Some faux material, harder than wax, cleaner than leather but slipperier than latex.

You swallowed thickly, almost forgetting how to speak for a moment. 

*<Cat got your tongue? Not yet I don't~~>* Their tongue slipped between their lips and they winked at you.

You blinked and almost felt your chest shatter as your heart fell... That's what you had said once flirtatiously to them.. years ago.. Oh, how sad it is that they do not remember you. How dreadful it is that nothing can be done of it either.

  "No. None of that. I am here on behalf of your sister, Delirium. Here. It's an invitation to a party she wishes to throw in my honour." You hand him his scroll of invitation, glitter and sparkles likely filling the case to the brim inside it.

You graciously smile and curtsie before turning to take your leave. 

Desire looks over the invitation, *<A party, hmm? And for you no less.. Well, I do not even know your name, what will this party entail? And if you plan on leaving the way you came, you shall find that all us Endless do not use simple tactics.. You cannot leave the same way, these walls are puzzles upon puzzles of design, an ever-shifting maze. Good luck getting out of here without my guidance, little angel~>*