"Simple curiosity," Alastor admitted without hesitation. "Yours was a rather unique nightmare. I'd never seen such a wasteland before. Not even the one surrounding Orkili can compare."

He looked out over the dead landscape.

"Most nightmares people have here are monsters, usually from a past incident. However, the locations they take in are more or less contained. The 'monster' is the rogue element in an otherwise relatively normal location. Yours, however, was entirely unnatural. I never would've suspected that the 'monster' behind it all was a crystal."