[The dream helpfully starts whispering around the sound of the noises, the banging and the clanking, You used to always do what Flea said.
Louder and louder. Then, Except for when I begged him to stay.
This just keeps repeating, coupled with the younger woman's voice -- don't leave, don't leave, don't you damn well dare leave. --- Fine, go, go if you must, I don't care, it doesn't matter, no I won't go with you. just go already. just go...]
[And then Neal will feel Porthos reach out, grab his arm -- not unkindly, not cruelly, but with surety -- tugging him back, away from the path]
You have to go. [If you stay there, you'll die. If you stay there, you'll be destroyed. You have to leave them behind. They won't come with you...]