>>718213982
>Anon that's because TCO just took most of Elysium and the crumbs were taken by Mabel into Shatranj. The books in BS2 are mere set pieces
The books being irrelevant in BS2's main plot is also irrelevant to the point I'm making here. Those are literally the BS1 heroines and their books that you find in BS2. Their souls weren't somehow lost in the collapse of BS1's garden, and they're not going to be lost from the collapse of BS2's garden either. Red specifically talks about finding the books to revive the others in the BS2 Hotel anon, it's not some kind of blind fucking guess it's blatant foreshadowing.
>"...Let's look for a way to restore them to life once we're back in reality, how about that? The fairy-tales they originate from must still remain there."
>>718214353
It's a deep cut from BS1, but even when they're defeated/killed, they just return back to their books. More than likely, Dorothy's scene in BS2 is the kind of thing Hatta refers to in DLC 3 about how fairy tales don't die, but live on in a place we know not. Despite Dorothy being dead, her book still exists and she also still clearly exists and remembers us and the time we've spent with her in BS1.