Mary

Mary is a character that only appears in Dream Master (2017), a short story set in the Elsaverse. She was a farmer from the 17th Century that helped the Dream Master Troi when he showed up in her realm while trying to escape from Xara. Mary received the "Morpheus" as a present for her kindness, and probably started Elsa's lineage by sleeping with Troi.

Character Overview
Mary is introduced in Dream Master as a tough young woman who lives alone in a cabin in the woods, after the death of her beloved husband, James. She has had a hard year, and she is starting to wonder if she should leave the place, since it's a too lonely environment and her neighbours in the nearest village don't feel comfortable around her, due to her being a young widow. Almost answering to her musings, one day, after visiting James' grave, she is assaulted by Jacob Boyer, a sinister villager who is rumoured to have raped and murdered at least two women. Trying to look calm, she lets him approach her and then shots him on the head with a modern flintlock her late husband bought shortly before his death. Mary drops Jacob's body in the river and then comes back to James' grave to tell him what has just happened, but she sees a bright light flash and starts hearing what looks like an animal in pain. When she gets to the source of the sounds, she finds an attractive but weird-looking stranger that seems badly hurt. Unable to understand him, and amazed by his unusual clothing, Mary tries to help the man out and brings him back to her cabin, where she cleans his wound. Then, she lets him rest and, at night, she goes to sleep too, holding her flintlock as a protection measure, although she actually feels attracted to that man, and not threatened by him.

Strangely, she sees the man talking to her in her dreams: he thanks Mary for her kindness and explains to her that his name is Troi and he comes from another realm, where he can do magical things like entering other people's dreams to communicate with them, and even teaching them his language, as he claims he has just done with her. He also explains that he was running away from a legendary executioner, the one who hurt him, but that she won't be there until the next day. Mary, who is feeling some urges after a year without sex, blushes when she realizes he can listen to her thoughts. Then, after flying around the woods in her dreams, she asks Troi to wake her up, and they make love in her cabin. Surprisingly, Troi is also a delicate lover who teaches Mary that sex can be a great pleasure for women too. Afterwards, she asks him to stay and even offers to run away with him, but he says it's impossible to escape from his chaser, and that he must accept his fate. She then falls asleep again and, when she wakes up, later in the day, Troi is no longer there. However, his cat, Hunter, is still in the cabin, as well as the book Troi was always holding. Although the day before she wasn't able to understand the symbols written on its cover, now she can perfectly read its title: "Morpheus".

Miscellaneous

 * Before using it on Jacob, Mary always considered that her husband had spent too much money on the flintlock, so she quickly went to his grave to apologize for it.


 * Mary is said to have always liked how James treated her during sex; however, she only discovered the real joy of it thanks to Troi's attentions and his realm's more sophisticated techniques for pleasuring women.


 * In Saving Chloe (2018), it's stated that Elsa's origins can be traced back to the parallel universe, although nobody knows what those origins actually are, only that it must have happened many generations ago. Dream Master seems to imply that she's a Troi's descendant.