Felix hugs Dayo's back. Which probably can't be felt through the thick hide. "We really ought to have found Earth by now... fuck, the probability- there is no place outside the conflux with this many pocket dimensions overlapping."

The next dimension has a colorful forest, dotted by the occasional cottage. Felix groans.

She is not going to set anything on fire. She is not.

Maybe the sky. She might set the sky on fire.

Hey can she use her shiny new magic to fly faster?

It turns out that wind control is a great way to make airborne objects move where she wants. There's still a delay when they cross the vanishing point, but it comes faster.

They appear on a desert that's too bright.

Floating islands above a desert.

Floating geometrical crystals, above a swirly colorful void.

Above a non-floating castle that's on fire.

"Wait a minute, I recognize this place from my dream."

"Oh?"

"Yeah... same style, it was even on fire too. We should put it out."

"I'm not good at making fires stop."

"I think you got the greater gift of fire. You can just... tell the flames to not burn once you're close enough."

"...hm. Okay then, let's try that."

She flies lower and tries that.

It's simple enough, she might miss some stray sparks or the heat might rekindle the flame, but the fire starts going out.

There is a group of people huddled in the flames. They are not screaming despite the fire around them.

Okay, now there is no more fire around them. She lands.

Well, she is a large dragon, so they scream.

But then Felix lands next to her and one of them comes forth. "Felix! Where did you go? There are monsters attacking us." She hugs Felix.

He hugs back. "Vera? You... are real?"

"As opposed to?"

"We are real. And there are monsters trying to attack us. Cover us with fire again, it destroys their venom."

The group does look remarkably not-carbonized.

Felix hesitates for a moment. Then he creates a small flame in contact with his little finger. "Huh," he covers the group, "it's just like my dream. Fire only consumes or harms things if you tell it you to." He blinks alarmed. "Where is everyone else?"

"I think it only harms if a skymage tells it to. And some were taken by the monsters and some are scattered."

"Can someone explain what's going on here?" she grunts.

"I would like to know it myself. Felix vanished after touching a portal and then a bunch other portals opened and reptilian monsters showed up trying to round everyone."

"No, see, you've already lost me there, this is the first time Felix has come here outside of a dream."

"He... wasn't dreaming. I mean, he was actually here."

"Wait, is that Dayo? And Jessica?" asks someone else.

"Why are you a dragon and a skymage respectively?" asks a third.

"Long story... and how do you know them? ...and how do you know me?"

"We... are friends?" someone offers.

"...hey Jessica you're kinda insane do you wanna try to come up with an explanation here?"

"Gee, thanks," she says, then blinks. "But what if pocket dimensions are created from dreams?"

"That... huh, that would explain why none of us remember anything before the party started. I guess we were created recently."

"What? Does this means that I created them?"

"Sounds likely," says one of them who has yet to introduce themselves.