A god with a whole galaxy in his throat. Ronan hadn't heard the story, but he liked the description. It was a galaxy inside of him, in his subconscious, in his soul - or it normally was. Right now it was inside of Noah instead. Which, if Ronan didn't get to have it, he was glad someone else did, so that his creatures were alive, and he was glad that that someone was Noah, who deserved not only to be alive but alive in a bigger way, instead of this half-life he'd been living.
Ronan was now aware of how much of a half-life it really was. And, he supposed, Noah must be aware of that too. If ghostliness was a half-life, then being a dreamer was at least a life and a half, if not a hundred lives at once, as many lives as a dreamer could imagine and had the power to create.
"You don't have to be the same person, being alive again," Ronan said. He meant it for this particular moment, and also for the time when they managed to bring Noah back to life, because he believed that they could, they just needed -- something. Noah's bones, maybe. Cabeswater, possibly. Maybe both. Ronan had a lot of power, but he didn't know how to shape it; he didn't know the person that Noah should be, the person he wanted to be. He needed to see Noah alive in order to do that. Maybe this was his chance, at that. If Noah took the chance. "You can be whoever you fucking want. And in your dreams - you can dream things happening differently. That's harder, nightmares are harder to control, but if you lean into it, and work with it instead of against it, you can change things."
He wasn't sure that made sense. He wasn't good at this part. This part had never really been explained to him very well. Kavinsky had kind of taught him how the dreams worked, but also the way they worked for Kavinsky was different from the way they worked for Ronan. He was not a dream thief, he was a Greywaren, and the dreams were meant to bend to his will, if he used his will right. If he used it like he was asking instead of commanding.
He shrugged. "Being drunk isn't great," he said, and felt that Gansey would have approved of him saying that, which made him frown and continue, "Not the kind of drunk that's supposed to take care of the bad shit, anyway. You should get drunk because it's fun, because you want to, because you're hanging out with people. And maybe because you want to bring stuff back from your dreams. It does help with that."