Dan is an unfortunate soul who failed to 'mind the gap' while stepping off an underground train.

His slip is mistaken for a deliberate act by his loved ones above. Down below they take a dim view of suicide, and Dan's doom is to be turned into a wretched stump of a tree - unless he can escape with the help of...

Hiero the satyr should be helping to make Dan's after-life hell. Hiero is eventually prepared to believe Dan was the victim of an accident and anyway Hiero has his own reason to escape - the imps are out to get him, especially...

Bully a large blue imp, bully by name and nature.

making wings and sleeping imps