"You can shape-shift? Or do you mean, like mentally?" Go figure, of everything Jenny had just said, that was what her mind stuck on. Way to be sensitive, Jax. "I- sorry. Soemtimes the helplessness is the hardest part, and there's no... outright answer for that. For the first long while, I just tried not to go to sleep, so I wouldn't have to deal with the dreams. Nightmares, really. But the more tired we got, the more... weird shit started to happen. There's no easy way to deal with it.
"As for the fictional character thing- well, did you ever read comics? I know, I'm a dork, but bear with me," She gave Jenny a little smile, taking a sip of her coffee with the light pause before going on. "There's what's called a multiverse. A bunch of different parallel realities, that only differ a little bit. And like, in one of them, superheroes are real. But in another, the comic book characters the superheroes read about are real, and the first group are... fake. Okay, I'm really awful at explaining this. But... what I'm trying to say is, 'fictional' is relative. He was obviously real enough that he's now living in your head. And the things that he makes you think, and that he can do? They're real, too. Even if it sounds crazy. It's possible. We're proof of that,"