Janan considers the question in thoughtful silence, trains one eye on the woman and one on her crow. Under her feet Rashad's shoulder quakes as he goes on weeping in self pity. He is not fit to remove himself from this situation and the woman is clearly too curious to leave.

"We are injured," she finally admits. Rashad will not (cannot) remove himself from Iman's presence in this dreamscape, but it is unlikely she will locate him in the waking world. "At the hand of another not entirely unlike us. We do not know his name."