Eloy is doing his best to cope.

I imagine that several of Chernyl's nightmare might be empire-inspired. Seeing as they want to kill for for existing, even without deadly nightmare powers.

Promising indeed, Veda's delight, such imaginations. Hopefully for her she's meeting them firsthand.

Jikes I didn't think the nightmare things would even get special abilities.

Eloy might be nonchalantly just listening to the conversation this way :D portray the fool and trick everyone into thinking you are.

@Tom, with Eloy, how can you tell which drinking is for coping with the situation and which drinking is just functional alcoholism?

I think they call this "foreshadowing"

Ciel: "Noah. Noah. You should wish for the power to kill with a glance. Destroy your enemies Noah."

Those are intense nightmares !

Also kind of interesting. I don't dream much and when I do get some nightmares I tend to shrug them away as I'm dreaming. Weird to see something so big and intense that it can kill