- Script
- Neil Gaiman
- Inks
- Jon J. Muth
- Colors
- Jon J. Muth; Digital Chameleon
- Letters
- Todd Klein
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Master Li; Dream [Morpheus]; Dream [Daniel]
- Synopsis
- Master Li is exiled from the Chinese imperial court and wanders the desert where he meets the Sandman who offers him a job as counselor but Li turns him down.
- Reprints
- in The Sandman: The Wake (Titan, 1997 series) (1997)
- in The Sandman: The Wake (DC, 1997 series) #[10] ([February] 1997)
- in The Sandman: The Wake (DC, 1997 series) #[10] ([July] 1997)
- in The Sandman [Sandman Library Edition] (DC, 1998 series) #10 - The Wake ([December] 1999)
- in Sandman (Egmont Polska, 2002 series) #[17] - Przebudzenie ([maj] 2007)
- in The Absolute Sandman (DC, 2006 series) #4 (2008 [January 2009])
- in The Sandman (Planeta DeAgostini, 2010 series) #7 - Muerte (Abril 2011)
- in The Sandman (DC, 2010 series) #10 - The Wake (2012 [January 2013])
- in The Sandman Omnibus (DC, 2013 series) #2 (2013 [January 2014])
- in The Sandman (DC, 2018 series) #10 - The Wake ([September] 2019)
- in Biblioteca Sandman (ECC Ediciones, 2020 series) #10 (Febrero de 2022)
- in The Sandman: The Deluxe Edition (DC, 2020 series) #5 (2021 [April 2022])
- in The Sandman (DC, 2022 series) #4 ([July] 2022)
The art for this story was produced directly in ink without pencil art first.