"When I wake up, I insist on an introduction," she said, and it was the most positive thing she'd said in their entire conversation. The comment, and the certainty that waking would come, seemed to weigh on the the Threshold, make it less solid and less real, and Aura looked up at the clearing in the ceiling that was not part of the dream, that was unfamiliar. "You're waking," she said knowingly, and then she looked back at him, and she clutched his hand tightly. "Take care of Casper."