"Well, hey." He raises his dream-manifested coffee mug in a mock toast and smiles crookedly. "To saving the world."

And since he supposes Topher would know, him being apparently privy to most of the developments in his life, he continues:

"I'm guessing I should try to keep quiet about the Ascension thing, huh?" That'll mean no more divulging details to the people he meets in dreams, no matter how friendly or interested they seem in the matter. That's not a terrible stretch, at least. It just seems the sort of thing some of them are interested in and he won't fault them for that, but he doesn't want to be attracting the attention of higher-ups who might have a curiosity in cheating death and gaining knowledge of the universe's many workings.