[ His heart aches for her. She was having a normal day at school, and bam! She’s falling through some crack in the universe and landing in here. She must be terrified. ]

I don’t think you’re silly. [ Tim is firm on this point. ] I heard them too, and I had a dream about falling through long tunnel. It felt like it would never end.

[ He adds a correction with much reluctance. ]

It might have been real.

[ But he looks like he loathes the idea of that tunnel being an unasterisked reality. It was an illusion, a construct, or telepathically implant. Real to them is not the same thing as real.