Responsibility, perceived or actual

When Delirium asks Dream if he will help her look for their brother Destruction, Dream tells her he will go, and she assumes that he, too, wishes to find Destruction. But Dream tells Lucien that he has no intention of finding his brother, and that he is undertaking the journey for the sole purpose of spending time with his sister. The mechanisms that Destruction put in place to impede anyone who tries to find him begin to have serious consequences on those that Dream and Delirium seek, and Dream tells Delirium that he will not continue, as he does not wish to be responsible for any further calamities. But then because of the death of Ruby, Bernie Capax, and Ishtar, Dream feels he must seek out his brother. He feels that not to do so would mean that their deaths, which he feels responsible for...