William was startled into laughing. "I didn't say I was any good at it," he countered, rubbing his thumb over the stem of the ruffled demidryad to soothe it. He bit his lip, framing how he wanted to phrase it. "But I'm learning."
He hesitated, but there was no point in being anything other than direct. "Joe has done it with me," he told Spencer. "I can't alter anything yet, or take control of someone else's dreams, but I can penetrate them. I can be there." He held Spencer's gaze evenly. "I know it's not much, and I had hoped for more, but at least you wouldn't be alone."