"My world is oddly similar to this one—though this one certainly has one leg up in one way. In my world, the apocalypse happened. One of the Entities managed to rewrite the world into one where the fears took charge, leading to suffering untold."

Granted, that Entity was the Eye and the person who plunged the world into a hellscape was him, but John doesn't need to know that!

"Really, all I can give is reasons why we need to work on keeping Steel from accomplishing that himself."