>"You're right, you have no reason to think I am not a dream. But would a dream really ask that kind of question? All I can do is ask you to accept on faith that I am really, as are Marisa and Mugetsu."
>Nod to each in turn.
>"Mugetsu brought us here, she can mess with the flow of dreams."
>"I'll try to summarize: There are three worlds we're discussing right now. Two of them are real, or at least real enough. The last one is a dream, I'm pretty sure, and something about it has caused trouble for one of the other worlds."
>"The world you live in is the first one. The second is where we come from, that you literally enter when you dream. Right now, I believe we're in a third - a world 'made' when you were put to sleep and made to dream in that second world. I don't know if this place is real or not - your ability to enter that second world in your dreams makes it difficult to say."
>"We're trying to find the girl in our world that put you to sleep and made you dream twice over. She's been... broken apart, apparently, by something about what's happened. Hopefully, finding a way to put her back together will help in finding a way for you to wake up properly, and return to Renko. And as the dreamer for this dream, you might be key to doing that."
>"Mugetsu... what can the dreamer herself do, normally?"
>You ask that Maribel accept that you and your companions are not creations of Maribel's dream.
>"I'm as real as they come!" Marisa adds, when you nod to her. Mugetsu just nods back.
>"I think a dream could ask this," Maribel says, in response to your question. "You can't judge dreams by what makes sense when we're awake. But reality... I don't know that there is a reality, outside of our own perceptions. While I'm here, this is real, so I guess it doesn't matter whether you're from my imagination or from somewhere outside it. I'll still listen."
>You summarize your understanding of the multiple worlds involved, Maribel's passage between them, and your current problem.
>"That's... complicated," Maribel says. "If this a dream that I'm dreaming, but she is from outside the dream, how can I help her?" She shakes her head. "I guess I still don't really understand what I'm supposed to do. Or how to do it. I want to help, and I... I don't want Renko to worry about me. Can you tell me what I'm supposed to do?"
>"It varies," Mugetsu says, when you ask about what dreamers can manipulate. "Normally everything in a dream is a creation of its dreamer. In theory, they can manipulate anything and everything. But they're usually unaware that they're dreaming and thus don't overstep the bounds of the reality they craft for themselves. We don't... usually try to make them aware." She glances uncertainly at you. "When you were teaching in that school, you could have changed the color of the walls by thinking about it. You could have made the students appear, disappear, do whatever you wanted. The desks could have gotten up and danced, and taught the class for you. But you did none of these things, because in the world the dream reflected these are all impossible. Here... I do not know. There are many more forces at work than just Maribel's imagination."
