Not really wanting to follow her around - and curious about what might happen to a dream-room that a lucid dreamer leaves - he stays, wanders as far as the door before returning and actually sitting down. She must have this dream a lot, he thinks, for it to sustain itself like this so solidly. Of course, t's probably a familiar place, so that helps. Like when he spends his time asleep in the memory of his apartment, or the bus, or the old house.

When she returns, Galen takes the wine glass, listening carefully. While this is probably not an explanation for his abilities any more than the mutation theory is, it's still good information to have. If anything, he still loves to learn.

"So magic is a normal thing for you, then," he says, a little awed. "'Things not human', what does that mean, exactly?"