Iman bites down on her lower lip, forcing herself to remain silent even in the face of Greta's distress. She moves her hand from the woman's back to her opposite shoulder, looping the arm around her as if prepared to hold her back, or hold her, period.

Greta is having no trouble insisting that she isn't dead - but what are the rules, exactly, for this dream's absurd premise? Do people have to be aware they are speaking an untruth, or able to reasonably doubt? Or is it a technicality - that she isn't dead, currently, but perhaps - before she was taken-

Why is she even thinking along these lines?

"Who are you?" she asks the woman finally, her voice low and dangerous, if only to cover the unease she feels bubbling up beneath the surface.