>"Yeah, you just skim over it to see if there's anything that looks relevant, then focus on that.">Do so!
>Read more closely. Does it mention the dreamer actually constructing scenarios, or just reacting to them?
>Read a bit more, see if we can find anything like a tell to determine if one is doing this. Also look into wounds carrying over from dreams.
>Hmm. Set this one aside into the maybe pile, and move on to the next one.
>"What are you huhing about?"
>"I've gotten what I need from it for the moment. This is the pile of books I'll be getting back to. I don't want to dwell on one possibility until I've at least looked at all of them."
>Nod. "It's the easiest way to do research like this, cover a lot of ground quickly, then narrow in on what looks good.">Move on to the next one.
>Reimu mentioned she could help us get to Makai, right?>Skim through it, see if we can intuit how its organization works.
>Give it a bit more thorough skim.
>Annoyed nose, move on to the next one.
>"There was what?"
>"It's a mess of random, unorganized stuff. My instincts weren't telling me good things. You can give it a second look over it you want, I could have missed something."
>Nod. "It'll be a slog, I'm afraid. but I'm happy to have you watching my back, so to speak."
>"A slog."
>"Well, I already looked over some part, so you can skip over them.">Give a quick summary of the pages we've done already.