Gray child

In the dark dream-vision Pete falls through, a little gray child's face with inky black eyes appears in front of him, with black tears going down its gray face UC E1·00:27:39. The child whispers "It's happening. I'm so sorry. Heed the words of Lazarus before it's too late." UC E1·00:28:02. Then the child disappears and Pete is back in an alley among SantaCon people UC E1·00:28:10.

The gray child is Nod, the gray orphan UC E5·01:05:12 UC E8·01:49:18. It first appears in Pete's dream vision with black tears and tells him to "Heed the words of Lazarus" UC E1·00:28:02 UC E1·00:27:39. It returns to Pete in the Times Square fight, saying "I'm trying to reach you but I can't", and again to repeat the warning about Lazarus UC E2·00:48:01 UC E2·01:24:12. Pete tells Alejandro Ortiz there was a gray baby, and Alejandro repeats it, interested, and goes off to find his book UC E3·00:35:51 UC E3·00:36:04. In a vision in the Rat King's cistern Pete sees a smiling orphan child with gray skin and black eyes, who says "Everyone that ever came here had a dream" UC E4·01:14:41 UC E4·01:15:17.

Alejandro tells Pete that this gray baby is Nod, the gray orphan, and Esther says the gray orphan is never referred to as Lazarus in any writings the Occult Society has found UC E5·01:05:12 UC E5·01:06:12. Nod wakens in Pete's arms as a strange child with jet black eyes and gray skin, and says "My title is the Gray Orphan" UC E8·01:49:18 UC E8·01:46:32. When Pete calls Nod "the gray baby", Nod answers "I prefer Nod to gray baby" UC E9·00:09:39 UC E9·00:09:44. Nod says Lazarus was a powerful Vox Phantasma who, in the mid-1800s, was the voice of Dream UC E9·00:39:44.