Following Dream's disappearance, and the decay of the Dreaming, Brute and Glob decided to become the powers behind the throne, and set up their own version of Sandman. They took over Jed Walker 's dreams, and manipulated a scientist called Garrett Sanford in the hope of having a Sandman under their control. They confined themselves to the Dream Dimension, a small corner of the Dreaming that the duo cut off from the rest. When Morpheus found them during the incidents of The Doll's House, he banished them to "the darkness" for their insolence, and sent Hector Hall to the afterlife.