Learning more about humans is very complicated.

The alien currently known as Chamomile has encountered some hiccups in their observation protocols. Big hiccups. More like implosions.

They’ve combed this part of the dream web, looking for entry points, minds they can still access — this one looks more promising than the others.

Floating forward in the opalescent void, they reach forward into the egglike bubble of a sleeping mind, and they pull.