Snuggle.

Lion King time!

Cube is his favorite Earth. All the exotic animals wandering the streets and trying to sneak into the theatre - "you still need a ticket," someone yells at a housefly - and Andalites on street corners eating nachos.

It's cute how easy it is to spot an Andalite. Balcony seats! They are respectively an Elf and wearing an Elf-vision magic item so these are in fact the best seats in the house, good angle on the stage.

Human musicals are so much fun despite the fact that even the best human singers are kinda slightly-above-average Elf singers. The Lion King fails to explain why there is a lion monarchy!

And surprisingly few of the actors are in morph! Thoughtspeak unlike osanwë doesn't allow singing. The costumery's neat though.

It's very elaborate. He cries when the Lion King dies. Brings back memories.

Afterwards they go get ice cream, and he sings the romantic songs at Kib.

Which is very cute. So unrelatedly - why is it you think Sibyl should talk to you, or a you?

I've - known him longer? I'd expect to be able to give advice on his alts that might not occur to you? In particular there's a thing where - after Angband they see themselves as a thing to use to achieve their goals, and I feel like she's probably butting up against that badly -

Bells do that too, I assume it's... differently.

It - works better than not doing that. But - it means that even once she figures out what she wants most of what she wants will be 'proving to herself that she can still accomplish all her goals', and it's hard to navigate -

...with what implications for Sibyl...

If Sibyl is not interested in anything Dream doesn't want, and what Dream wants is assurance that she's as good at the things she does as she used to be - but, understand, doesn't care about those things aside from as evidence that she can function normally - then they seem likely to neither of them get what they want.

I think it doesn't matter as much as it may sound like it does why Dream wants things.

Then maybe they'll work through it anyway. If Sibyl thinks she's got it, I trust her - just, if she doesn't, I think I had a better sense of what he needed from me than he did and I doubt Dream'll be any better at explaining it.

It may be that Sibyl has not successfully explained to Dream how little it matters why she wants things? Sibyl definitely doesn't think she's got it, though, Sibyl is - flailing and trying to do it in slow motion because she feels like everything she winds up doing in the process of flailing either does nothing or makes something worse.

Maybe she also needs a talk about how Maitimos can be kind of idiots for being so smart.

I think she's noticed that but doesn't know what to do about that, either. If you were looking for an excuse to self-congratulate about your effect on Bell/Maitimo relations...

I could have called that from the moment he tearfully told me he'd called you disgusting in public - anyway, her Maitimo hasn't got a me and it seems like there might be some way to communicate the, uh, helpful bits they get from that -

Worth a shot.

Sigh. Think they'll be all right?

Not sure of it.

Nod. They dodge some Andalites blissed out on ice cream and head out along the river for a walk.

And he writes Sibyl - Kib's not sure if it'll help, but if you want to talk to any of us who had to put one back together afterwards -

Can't hurt, can it?

No.