The look on her face is worth it.

"Hi."

"...Hi! You, wow, it has in fact been slightly less than twenty minutes, um. Okay. I was not expecting that."

"We know!!!!"

"Well played."

Couch. Snuggles. 

Sister-snuggles, and also Imliss studying a texbook because she really should keep up with her studies and this does not interfere with snuggle.

Yeah, that's reasonable.

And eventually there is dinner and then it gets late enough that Imliss should go back to campus. She has less time for them on school days, but not none, and she's a lot better off, emotionally, for having her sister conveniently available.

And it doesn't take much longer before she has a hypnotherapist selected and shows up for her first appointment.

Her hypnotherapist is named Shannon and has curly brown hair halfway down her back and looks maybe late twenties. She talks about hypnosis and has Imliss sign forms and then asks what she is hoping to get out of therapy.

"I'm magic and I can prove it and I need your help," she says, and then every surface in the office that looks unlikely to be damaged by water is covered in ice. The temperature of the room plummets farther faster than just the introduction of that quantity of ice should have elicited.

She looks terrified.

The ice vanishes. "...Sorry."

"Um."

"I just. Wanted to rip the bandaid off. Because if I had explained my problem without doing any magic you would have thought I was crazy."

"Probably, yes."

"And now you think I am scary but at least not delusional. ...If I have to try that again with another therapist because you're scared off I'll do something less. That."

"No, it's okay. Just a bit startling."

"Okay. I'm not the only magic that exists, but I am one of only two people with my particular kind of magic. It involves dreams. I want to dream about specific things so that I can do the appropriate magic."

"Sorry, can you explain, um, more - why can you do magic -"

"...This is actually an incredibly long story. Um, I was born in a universe where everyone can do this kind of magic. Then my sister and I were transported to this one via unexplained magical accident. Then we died. Then we reincarnated eighteen years ago and started getting our memories back in dreams."

"I see. Do people on your world also - reincarnate?"

"No. But we've found a few other people in this world who are reincarnations."

"Okay. This is - very unusual. But hypnosis can help with troubled dreams. Maybe with magic ones."

"I really hope so. So to start with I should actually explain how my magic works--" and she starts explaining dreamshaping.