The unexpected surge of pure pain takes her by surprise, and for a moment she feels like she's breaking apart right with him. But then she's left reeling in an empty dreamscape, pain turning into panic as all his emotions are pulled out from under her like a rug, and she does the mental equivalent of spinning around searching for him.

Before she can decide to leave the Dreaming herself and try to locate him in the real world, his mind flows back into place around her. She watches with something vaguely like motion sickness as they rapidly switch through a few sceneries, unable to make out any details. Once they've settled back into the previous view, she sinks to her knees beside him, an expression of both shock and concern on her face. "Did you wake up? What did you see?" She starts focusing her energy on easing his pain, but it's everywhere, along with a gruelling strain, and she's having a hard enough time just preventing it all from seeping into her own mind.