"S'okay. Maybe the path's around here."

Anything of interest by the temple?

There definitely wasn't before but now the temple is built into a mountain, how about that. It's very sheer and steep.

Mahdi plucks a feather off his bird. "Fly."

She focuses on the flying wizard form and goes up, up, up.

Everything gets brightly, blindingly white. There are little blobs of light darting about.  

And there's Fazil, very still, watching the ground far below.

" - hey."

He looks startled to see her. "Aria."

"Hi. You're dreaming. Sort of. - the people down there aren't people, they're the Fade looking like your people, reflecting your emotions back at you."

"Dispel Magic."

The only thing that happens is that Aria stops flying and falls down. Not all the way to the ground below, she just sort of plops down on the mountain next to Fazil.

" - I'm not sure that one works super well. The Fade is sort of - magic all the way down."

" - okay. How is one supposed to counter it, then?"

"You don't counter it, exactly? Being here for a little while is normal, happens whenever you dream - whenever we dream, anyway - and it's not dangerous, if anything too bad happens your spirit will return to your body and you'll be fine. The problem is I think we're being held here. By someone, a magister or a demon he's called on or something, I'm not really sure. But I figure if there is a demon running this maze then we can kill it, and once the demon's dead it should be, like, a normal dream, the kind you wake up from."

"In prison," says Fazil.

"Yeah, I'm still working on that part."

"I got off a sending to the team accompanying us, warning them about Tevinter, but I didn't know where I was and couldn't tell them, don't know where they landed, I have no idea if they intend to help. They confirmed receipt of the message.

Where's Hagan?"

"Haven't seen him since I feel asleep. His body was in a cell with mine and Fy's and North's before."

He stands up. "And Draconis? - why can we understand each other -"

"I assume that's a dream thing? I don't have Tongues up. Also still looking for Draconis."

"All right. Where have you looked?"

"Mostly been looking for extra doors in my nightmare, but I haven't seen any more of those. I guess there are a couple more rooms I haven't checked. Or there might be a door through here somewhere. Mahdi had a nightmare too but I, uh, don't think we should go back to that one."

"What -"

     "I actually think the core content of my nightmare was simply that I had no aptitude for magic, but after a while a Tarrasque showed up. And then another one."

"Ah."

"We can head down the mountain and then look around here, I guess. And if there's nothing here then we can check mine."

It's a long, slow walk. 

"How do you fly without using a spell?" Mahdi asks her.

" - not an expert on Fade stuff. But the last time a demon trapped me here I sort of - picked up substituting other elements of the dreams for me? I'm focusing on being one of the flying wizards from yours."

After some attempts they get this working too.

Cool. Then they can circle around Fazil's nightmare and see if there are any places that seem to lead to anywhere that isn't here.

There aren't.

"I guess we head back to mine?"