"Oh..." he offered her a sympathetic expression, and his voice which was already kind, gentled further. "This place does things like that," he said, almost apologetic. "I was told this is some sort of weird dreamscape, but one we can't choose to wake up from. So weird things keep happening. And... they make about as much sense as dreams do..." Of course, his dreams were all nightmares recently. He kept waiting for the other shoe to drop here.