Dromes

The dreams are traps, but though there are signs, you may not realize you have passed into such a dream. The Drome likes watching dreams, and if you eat anything in the dream, you will want to stay there for ever. It will watch you eating dream food until you starve to death, then it will eat you. They appear in the dream, and can be killed there with imaginary weapons. This is, in most cases, the only way of escape. Outside the dream they are large and pale and puffy, and can be beheaded in the ordinary way.

Manifestation

Dromes appear in Faerie in The Wee Free Men. Faerie is not their natural habitat. They are there because they have been kidnapped from some other universe by the Queen, for whom illusion is the natural coin of existence. She uses them like sheep dogs to herd dreams (and Tiffany Aching), and keeps some like guard dogs in collar and chain.

Localization

It seems that Dromes know about the sea, and this one was home-sick for it. It was sitting by the sea-shore, and probably thought it was at home. The Queen had said of them contemptuously, they're not much more than a walking sponge. It appears that their natural prey may be crabs.

Nightmares

Extraordinary terrors and ordinary things gone wrong.