"What's Russian?"

" - why do you want my autograph?"

"A language! This is a sentence in Russian!" Dana supplies, she lacks the translation magic. "Why would I not want your autograph? Well, I guess technically never watched one of your movies, but I have never listened to Makel's songs either. But I have a strong feeling that I'm going to like them both. And the Russian version of what I just said is!" She provides the Russian translation.

Amentans are charmed. They provide autographs and demand Russian and oooh and aaah at Felix's dimension.

She bouncily guides them. The dimension is pretty (and after the removal of the excessive decoration) opulent-but-tasteful.

Trevor and Tani are in a newly created wing. He is stretching his wings when they come in, making visible the pattern of lightning against the dark, practically announcing "this person has electrokinetic powers." He is wearing protective gear, but is with his helmet/gas-mask off.

"Oh, hi!"

"Hello, it's a pleasure to meet you." Tani says turning around, she is wearing something similarly protective, but adorned with jewelry that glows with a green-fire inside. There is a rapier hanging from her belt.

"How dangerous is this exactly?"

"I think that Tani is overreacting a little. Having a dreamshaper at ready to create portals helps a whole lot. The plan is that Tani puts one of you to sleep. Then we touch that one with the dreamshard. I walk in and bring your dream-avatar back to a portal. You wake up. Tani puts you back to sleep again so we can figure out what your dimension does. If I fail to rescue one of you Felix can opens portals to another pocket dimension - Isel's work or one of the others you lot gets. Then your dream-avatar won't be able to take a step without walking through a portal. We don't try that first because anything from your dimension could escape. My brothers managed to rescue dreamshapers with dimensions that were much larger than what yours are going to be when I walk in, so I think the odds are pretty good."

"Can you give numerical odds."

"Okay. Fenris, Felix and company managed to rescue thirty three out of thirty eight dreamshapers. Two died of medical complications during the rescue. There is something like a possible selection bias because the abductor purposefully killed a quarter of his dreamshapers on the grounds that their dimensions were too hostile or not obviously useful. And the population of dreamshapers was selected mostly out of 'people who would not be missed' which we think might increase the chances of hostile dimensions."

They nod. They are willing to go with this plan.

Cool. They can pick the order. Trevor dons his helmet.

And Tani provides sleep magic. There is a bed in the room for the wannabe dreamshaper, alongside couches for people in waiting. Once she puts someone to sleep she touches them with the dreamshard and they wait for Trevor to go through the portal.

He would go first but he's not done learning Russian it'll have to be someone else.

He'll go.

Dana is happy to provide Russian! She wishes Telkam and Trevor good luck.

And what is Telkam's dimension like?

It's big - or it can't be that big yet but it looks it, wide open spaces, wind rustling grass as tall as a person. He's not standing on the ground - he's standing on the sky a great distance above it. There are little stone footholds right under his feet but not anywhere else. 

He takes a step forward. There's still a stone foothold under his feet.

He walks. He looks down at the grass far below. There's an animal in it, a big one, leaving the grass swishing in its wake. He tries to sink his foot down farther before it catches on a suddenly materializing stone, succeeds, descends in a dizzying spiral towards the savanna below. The animal is a giant wolfhound, looks like. Bronze-haired and rolling gleefully in the dust.

Trevor flies in. The wolfhound distracts him for a moment, but then he spots Telkam and flies closer.

"Hello there! Having fun?"

"It's pretty! I'm not sure I want them to come in and build skyscrapers. And I'm not sure my dimension would cooperate."

Giggle. "Hey, no reason why a pocket dimension can't be a wilderness reserve! Kinda hard to do anything without your cooperation. Anyway, do you want to get back, sleep again and get the exact properties before it expands too much? That way we would know how friendly that thing is," he points at the wolfhound, "and if does anything interesting like flying."

"Yeah, okay."

They get back. Telkam-the-avatar crosses the portal and Telkam-the-real wakes up.

Tani offers him the sleep magic again so he can figure out what his dreamshaping does.

"How exactly do I figure that out, do I just experiment -"