My advice? Ensure that such remains your status quo. [Said the man who had flirted with making a bedeviled deal. But Chilton was easily preachy in his words, and less so in his actions.]

I would, in fact. [Her question lit up his gaze. Self-promotion was always something desired.] And -- yes, I have studied the science of sleep, and the neurological theories of dreams. You might say I've had quite a lot of personal experience in the matter. [Chilton had to restrain his tone, which would have come out somewhat wry; between his tenure as the dream-sick Pestilence and his momentary loss of sanity associated with some self-delusion of becoming a Dream God, this was a pattern he had to accept.]

Have you been suffering a bout of nightmares?