Many Hunters have been chosen to be the Moontouched Hunter , and been brought back to life by the Hunter ' s Dream . Presumably they all accomplished a task over the course of a hunt , and then were beheaded by Gerhman and returned to normal life in the waking world . Eileen explicitly says she used to dream , meaning she used to be brought back from the dead , and Djura is at least aware that this happens . And in two of the endings , the Hunter ' s Dream still exists because the Hunt will happen again only the third ending breaks the cycle and ends the hunt for good . What ' s not clear is what the task each Hunter accomplished . Have they all been killing Mergo , over and over ? Or were they chosen to do different things on different hunts ? I have tended to imagine that the Mensis ritual , and the encounter with Mergo , are special to this hunt . But maybe not , maybe that too is somehow endlessly repeating . All over the shop is just an expression , meaning all over the place . I don ' t think Gascoigne is referring to any actual workshop , it ' s just a turn of phrase .