At the end of Overture, it's revealed that Desire stole Time's saeculum (sæculum) from Dream, and hid it for Dream to find at a particular time later.
Was this discovery depicted or mentioned in a previous volume?
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Sign up to join this communityAt the end of Overture, it's revealed that Desire stole Time's saeculum (sæculum) from Dream, and hid it for Dream to find at a particular time later.
Was this discovery depicted or mentioned in a previous volume?
The Saeculum was found by the next aspect of Dream, who was previously known as Daniel Hall.
This happens some time after the events of the last volume of The Sandman. In Overture, the time period is simply referred to as "now":
The Saeculum ended up with Mad Hettie, for some reason. Dream finds it in Overture #2, and immediately sends it back to Father (Time).
In Overture #4 we see that Father has received it. (And here we have the first example of a bootstrap paradox in The Sandman universe)