Dream Traversal could make a person's body insubstantial, as though they had become a dream elf or a Dreamwalker. They could slip directly into someone else's dream, then jump from one dream to another to achieve a physical Flash.
The two dreams had to belong to intelligent beings and be no more than 500 meters apart, though.
With this ability he had learned from Miss Sloth, Abner quickly left Ozil's villa on Coastal Defense Street behind and headed toward the outskirts.
Along the way, he passed through many people's dreams. He saw an adventurer who had finally found treasure after countless hardships, a young worker marrying the person he loved, a student crushed by a failed exam, and a wealthy woman meeting her playboy lover at night...
So many people are troubled by problems... Too bad Doctor Strange can't appear in Bayam... Huh?
Abner had just sighed in regret when he entered another dream and stopped short.
A young girl was crying out over and over in her sleep, asking, "How can I live like a human being?"
The despair and pain in her voice struck Abner. It reminded him of the native girl Klein had buried in the original story, the one who had died of illness beneath a bridge. The epitaph Klein had written for her was: "She was a human being"...
I think that girl was called Boudi... Could this be her? After a moment's hesitation, Abner used his ability to guide her dream, wanting to see what she had been through.
Whether or not she was the Boudi from the original story, she looked close to her limit. If he had never encountered her, that would have been one thing. But now that he had, Abner intended to help if he could.
As for the Dreamwalker's