"I don't know," she says, blowing gently across the surface of her coffee. "But there are a lot of powerful people here, people who could help us and would want to. There must be a way." She pauses to continue typing at the Balladeer, who seems to have picked up on the more unsavory aspects of Tim and Jay's lives; then she sets the phone aside and looks back up at Tim.

"The first thing is probably to see if you can find him in the dreaming again," she says. "Maybe he knows what's happening to him."