“No, you’re not, sweetie. Could Ms. Roberts shoot blue lights out of her hands if you were awake? This is all just a dream, honey. So… I want you to concentrate on waking yourself up, okay? Try really hard.”
More movement from over by the closet door caught their attention, and Ira turned to look for a full five or ten seconds before she shook him, and he said, “Okay, Ms. Roberts. I’ll try.” He closed his eyes, as if he was really concentrating.
“And Ira, promise me you will never, ever go anywhere with a stranger in a dream or in real life, okay?”
His eyes still squeezed tight, he said, “Okay.”
As Thanatos sat up, Ru decided to do whatever she could to help Ira. She’d heard of people taking others to different realms and assumed that’s what Thanatos had done here. Maybe she could pull
