Go on an excursion, they said. It'll be fun, they said. Well. Connor's not having fun on this trip and he's rethinking the entire idea of being a Dreamer right now. This would have never happened to him in America.

"... I'm here." He is extremely disgruntled and currently swaddled in shadows like a blanket, but he's here. "Please tell me this is what's supposed to happen."

It's not. He knows it's not, because other people find cool things like gothic mansions and beaches when they go through the Dream Sphere.