"Hi, Cole! I'm Steven!" Steven angles himself towards where he thinks the voice was coming from, and Allirea takes a friendlier dog shape. "And I'm Allirea!" she adds, for good measure.

After a moment of thoughtful sniffing, she says, "This way, I think." Steven braces a hand on her furry shoulder as they step down off the smooth, tiled floor of the grocery store and into ankle-high grass.

"This dream is so weird," Steven observes, though he doesn't sound at all perturbed by said weirdness so much as excited by it. Raising his voice a little, he calls, "Can you see our light?"