She is having a rather excellent amount of fun causing and observing explosions!

Addy causes a few of her own.

It's even more fun with two - River starts syncing her explosions with Addy's in interesting patterns.

Addy works to make the patterns more complex and intricate.

Then they'll have quite the show going on soon enough.

Addy's more than willing to keep going as long as River wants.

She does eventually get a bit - somewhere between tired and bored.

When Addy notices she starts winding things down. "That was fun."

"Yeah! A lot."

"We can do it more another time if you like."

"I think I would!"

"Then we will. In the meantime, it might make sense to turn our attention back to your situation outside the dreamscape."

"Yeah."

"I'm sorry for bringing it back up, we do need to figure out what you want to do though. As I see it, the key to breaking out is going to be learning to manifest dreamscape magic outside of the dreamscape. Unfortunately it's really hard to learn that inside the dreamscape. Maybe your telepathy will provide an end run around that though. The easiest magics to manifest are changes to your own sensoria, the first one we tend to teach allows those like yourself to talk with us while you're outside."

"If it's internally consistent how to do it I should be able to just read you thinking about it, yeah."

"Alright, it should be pretty similar, though different worlds push back on dreamscape magic differently." She enters her memory palace and spends a bit of time moving around until she finds the right memory and then immerses herself in it. First, she remembers how the tether feels from the other side, while in the dreamscape the tether is something of a steady anchor, it adds a subtle feeling of weight. Outside the dreamscape though Addy remembers the tether making her feel lighter and larger, like she's filled with helium and trying to both expand and float upward, except the direction isn't upward it's in a non-physical direction. Then she remembers turning her focus to her memory palace. She does something a bit like pushing reality into an area only instead of pulling from the tether on the physical world within the dreamscape she'd pushing the dreamscape into her memory palace, making it more a realm of pure ideas and less a manifestation of firing neurons. Unlike in the dreamscape there's something that pushes back, trying to resist the imposition. It feels like there are weights tied to her limbs slowing her movements and making every action harder. The sensation persists like that for a little while before she wins the battle of wills. Once it does, she builds a representation of herself within the memory palace. Then she conjures a string and feeds one end through her tether until she feels a gentle tugging on the other end. Finally she attaches the string to a tin can and fixes the tin can to float beside the head of her representation. "Hi Emma," she says.

Then Addy pulls out of the memory.

"I should be able to do that..."

"If you can that's great. The next thing I did was to improve my memory. It might be more useful to get better control over your experience of telepathy though, and that's also something you could practice here."

"Yeah. The telepathy's - hard."

"A good starting place would be to figure out how you'd like for it to work. Do you have a sense of what your best possible outcome is?"

"Not really."

"Can you describe what's bad about how it currently works? Or do you have a sense for what's bad even if you can't describe it to another person?"

"...It doesn't turn off. It's everything all at once. It's - loud."

"Is it something like..." Addy imagines a snatches of voices and wisps of thought flooding towards her from three different people, with a rough sense of who each thought is coming from. Addy is also loosely considering trying to copy River's telepathy wholesale to be better able to help. She can checkpoint herself and Emma would put her back together worst case.

"Not exactly. Kind of like - everyone's shouting constantly, and they're shouting all their thoughts, and I can see every visual thought but I don't have extra eyes so it's all jumbled up on my own sight, and I don't know who's thinking what unless I'm focusing on them. I get everything."