"I'm trapped where the Nightmare King is trapped. Because of where I'm at, I'm able to go in people's dreams just like him. Which means I can stop him from hurting people. I've gotten really good at getting around the dreams and learning how the dreamlands work."

He sits up to demonstrate.

"Watch this!" he says, and he reaches up and--plucks a star right out of the night sky above them as if its actually right there instead of impossibly distant. It glows bright and warm in his hand, about the size of a lychee fruit. He rolls it across his shoulders to his other hand and then spins it on the end of his finger.

"Tada!"