With his shadowy Nightmare Men and Fearlings, Pitch sailed the heavens on waves of fear, plundering planets, extinguishing stars, and scuttling any airship that crossed his path, savagely stealing every dream and replacing it with misery and despair. The dreams he hungered for most were those of children—the pure of heart. He could sense children from seven planets off, and with a mere touch of his hand, he could leave them plagued with nightmares for the rest of their lives. And for some there was a worse fate. Pitch turned some children into Fearlings, glorying in their pathetic moans and cries as he transformed them from humans to dark phantoms.
Nicholas Saint North and the Battle of the Nightmare King Chapter 5
