The liquid air of Cedric’s mindscape was proving to be more of an obstacle than Andie had anticipated. It had all the resistance of water - perhaps even a little more, but when she kicked against it there was no equal-but-opposite reaction to her action. There was no “push” to it. This made “swimming” impossible, and steering her descent an exercise in frustration. At this rate she was going to miss the asphalt platforms completely and land in the water.

Wait… was it just Andie’s imagination, or was one of the platforms moving strangely. All the other pieces of asphalt kept a consistent speed and a consistent distance from the center of the whirlpool - but with each orbit this one got faster and further from the center…

She’d need to look into that later. Right now she needed a plan just to reach any of the platforms. In Dyllan’s mindscape, Cedric had said that trying to leave just made you reappear above the mindscape. She could use that to try and land again, but without some way to steer her painfully slow descent it could take hours to land on something solid. Plus, she still needed a way to travel between the different platforms after she’d landed. She could probably use the power of her Virtue to get around, but she’d rather not use up her Courage quite… yet…

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…that - that was the third time the strange platform had passed underneath her. It had stopped getting further from the center and was now holding a steady orbit, and - there was no way this was the case - but it looked like it was slowing down as she got closer to it. Was it trying to catch her as she fell? No, mindscapes didn’t do that. They didn’t respond to the presence or actions of dreamwalkers - no matter what. Well, there was one exception.

Andie tightened her grip on her sword. That one exception? It was Nightmares.