This felt awkward to say the least. Trying to dodge the situation he started to look around but whenever he truly focused on the walls or anything in this room other than the girl he felt like they were blurring which didn't help his situation. After an odd minute where he tried to recover himself he finally looked at the eyes of the girl who was currently casually sipping her tea. Smiling at him the girl continued:"You are probably a bit confused at the moment. If your questions are related to your powers then i can be of aid on that department through improving them will mostly depend on your effort. If you ask me questions regarding the world then i won't be able to respond to it. Also as a warning if you displease me too much i will take away your magic until you make amends but that will be for your own good." while sounding like a mother threatening her child with taking away his toys. Mark wasn't really that attached to hiss current powers mainly because he didn't even understand how they worked but he felt like at the moment the best course of action was to just nod along and hope everything goes well.

The girl seemed to like his response as she took another sip from her tea while continuing to smile and she said:"Don't worry about things too much. There are two important things for you at the moment. Keeping a stable life and learning about the world itself. Eventually it will be time to progress your understanding to reach ascension through i guess the concept of ascension is too complex for you. Anyway go ahead and drink your tea. We still have a lot of time to talk and drinking tea will help you calm yourself and focus your thoughts.

Not having much of a choice Mark followed and drank the tea and after calmly drinking tea for a minute he actually felt himself getting calmer. Despite the constant drinking the tea didn't seem to run out through that was probably the least of his worries. Spending another minute trying to prioritize the questions and put them into words Mark finally stopped drinking tea and looked at the girl before saying:"This may come off as a bit rude but what are you exactly?" which made the woman frown. For a second Mark felt like he had asked a rude question but the woman simply placed her tea to the table before starting to explain:" Well that is a rather complex questions. Instead let me say this. I know everything you know and i will always support your improvement. Basically i am your most trustworthy ally in the world you have gotten yourself into. If i say anything more your psyche will probably close itself due to not understanding."

Naturally Mark wasn't exactly satisfied with the response but he felt like he wasn't in the position to question. He wondered why he wasn't in a position to question things. This person in front of him was a stranger after all yet at the same time his guts told him that this woman was telling the truth at the moment and that she was his ally but more importantly his guts told him he should avoid offending this person at any cost. He normally didn't move according to his gut but at the same time his gut feeling had never been this strong. As if sensing his discord the woman gestured at the tea and Mark took a sip from it again while the girl said:"Try to not to get too anxious. This is a dream so if you get too anxious you will end up waking up while barely remembering what we talked about. Just drink your tea and ask me the rest of your questions."

Talking like this the woman had started to give off the vibe of a businesswoman that was used to dealing with people like him rather than a mother. Again with his choices being either drinking his tea or panicking he continued to sip his tea while considering his next question and after half a minute he asked:"So how do i improve?Are there books related to dealing with things like this?" which made the woman put down her tea and start explaining again:"I am certain there are books like that but at the moment i doubt you have the resources required to reach any of them. For now try to learn how to meditate and improve yourself on that field. That will open more doors for you."

By now Mark had prepared the other two questions so he asked the one he found to be more important:"Will there be people coming after me?I mean government or something similar." which caused the girl to simply respond by saying:"I thought i had made it clear that i can't answer anything regarding the world through i can tell you that those who do not have powers of sort will not be able to perceive the existence of your powers. This does not mean they can't use sleepers as their agents. Basically what i can tell you is don't be too showy and i think you will be alright."

That was anything but relieving. There could be people coming after him or he might not be on their radar. Was he supposed to prepare to escape? How could he escape from people with superpowers and even if he did what was going to happen?Was he going to live on road kill and live outside of the grid? He would prefer dying over that. As his thoughts start to drift towards worse scenarios they were interrupted by a voice:"Calm down. Nothing has happened yet and if you panic you will lose what little information you have." which actually caused him to slightly calm down.

After seeing him calm down the woman said:"Well with your constant panicking we lost a lot of time. Since this is a dream you spend way more time in your thoughts than you realize especially when you panic and as you panic our time here together grows shorter so we probably have time for just one more question. Make it count." before smiling at him in an almost teasing manner. He wanted to laugh at this situation and her smile but their time together was decreasing so he decided to ask his final question:"What are these powers exactly?What happened to me." which made the womans teasing smile to grow a bit wider than it should have been possible for a human and the response was simple and short compared to other answers yet extremely disturbing:"You managed to realize that the universe is nothing more than what people believe it is. Now your choices actually matter." before starting to giggle and as everything started to fade away he could hear a voice similar to a cheerful laughter but rather than being creepy it was more like the laughter of a woman whose child had finally managed to get a job.

When he woke up his face was covered in sweat and he felt like he hadn't slept for a single second. Just a second after his awakening he heard the voice of his guide in the back of his head:"Write everything important related to the dream as soon as possible." in a commanding tone and being sleepy he did as he was told pressing the power button of his laptop and as soon as it finished opening he opened notepad before writing

'1)Learn to meditate.'

'2)Don't do stuff that might attract attention.'

'3)People aren't after you and even if they were you couldn't defend yourself against them. Don't get paranoid.'

He paused when he was writing the final thing he had to write down. It sounded crazy yet it felt like it was right. Perhaps he was going insane. He sighed. There was no point to going through that spiral again and if he was going insane then there wasn't anything he could do other than what he already planned to do. After staring at the screen for a few minutes debating what to write while the dream slowly faded away he finally got what he should write.

'4)You are either a person with powers to bend reality or you are going insane. Either way be bold.'

He then moved the places of first and fourth article before changing the second article to 'Try to avoid attracting attention as long as it doesn't conflict with first article.' before pausing for a second trying to remember why he was typing these articles as the dream faded away from his memory. He just remembered that these were important and that he should do these whenever possible. Well perhaps not the first article. He couldn't exactly accept the fact that he was going insane or that he had powers t bend reality but he felt like being bold could make his life far better. After all due to being bold he had started getting large hot bagels and maybe he could get a girlfriend. Prefably one that didn't expect gifts. Actually he was certain he needed one that didn't expect gifts as he could barely afford anything other than his living expenses.

Considering it was saturday and his phone wasn't ringing calling him to work he decided to try to follow article four and tried to turn off the computer before having the computer ask whether he wanted to save the files or not. Deciding to save them he debated what to name it for a minute. A normal person would probably just name it untitled1 or something similar but he tended to obssess over things like this. Finally he named the file 'Dream rules' before turning off his computer and sitting on his bed in order to start reading his book as to learn how to meditate before starting to wonder if he should get coffee before getting started with this book but after a prompt from his new guide telling him that coffee prevents acquiring a clear mind and he should quit he decided to compromise with her and avoid coffee for now. He then picked up the book and started reading the first chapter.

Name

Mark Hilson

Race

Human

Mage

Attributes

Magical Statistics

Physical

Arete

3

Strength

2

Spheres

Dextery

2

Correspondence

3

Stamina

2

Entrophy

0

Social

Time

0

Presence

2

Life

0

Charisma

2

Matter

0

Manipulation

2

Mind

0

Mental

Prime

0

Wits

3

Forces

0

Intellegence

4

Spirit

0

Resolve

3

Time

0

Paradox

0

Quintessence

0