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[With Ariadne most definitely gone - awake, presumably, though Arthur still can't figure out how she could've woken up but he still can't - Arthur is now alone in this place.

In some ways, being alone opens up certain possibilities that he wouldn't have considered available as long as others were here that he needed to protect. It's just him, and he knows how to look after himself, and he doesn't have to worry about keeping stories straight or anything like that.

Besides, the dream hasn't collapsed yet; what's a few more projections knowing some things?]

I want to get in touch with anyone who had knowledge of those archways in Sinbrilee. [He still disdains the whole idea of magic, but it's clearly a delusion he'll have to work with for the time being.] Especially the dreaming ones.

There are some, ah, tests that I'd like to run.

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I get that magic exists here or wherever else. But it doesn't where I come from. Which makes it unhelpful for me, and anyone else for whom it doesn't and shouldn't.

That's what asking permission is for. Which is more than he ever did for those of us who's dreams he invaded.

[Of course, Arthur is the biggest hypocrite to talk about consent when it comes to dream sharing, but shhhh.]

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That you know of.

He invaded your dream?

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He invaded the dreams of a lot of people, myself included. Far as I know, he didn't ask anyone's permission.

I'd say he owes us one.

[Wow Arthur what a hypocrite like really.]

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Neither did Freddy Krueger and you see how that turned out.

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I'd say Asti is kind of the anti-Freddy Krueger.

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Since we're already in the space between life and death.

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You ever been to the turtle's head, kid?

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Not yet. Wait. Yeah. I think. Is that where that beach party was?

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You know the feeling you get when you're there?

Transfer that to your dreams, and that's what it's like when Asti shows up in them.

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Huh. And you remember it, too? I remember all my dreams.

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So do I.

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How would it work. Like, testing dreams with science?

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Like most science things: drugs and machines.

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Drugs. [ Weird that it sounds appealing? Kind of cool? ] If I were interested?

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Well, first I'd want to know you're at least eighteen. And why you want to do it.

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I'm seventeen. And, curiosity,

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In that case, sorry, probably not gonna happen. Unless I ever need test subjects for something.