"The dreaming will survive. But I can tell things are getting more serious in Lower Tadfield. I don't think it will be long before I am forced to take more extreme measures to protect the dreaming. Things will make more sense when we get to the heart of the problem."

The scenery around them seemed hard to focus on properly. In any moment the surroundings were easy to make out but with each step the surroundings seemed to be different somehow. It was impossible to ever catch them changing and although part of you knew they had changed another part knew that things had always been like this.

"Perhaps while we walk you can ask some of your questions."