<span style="font-weight: bold"><div style="text-align: center;">Travis</div></span><br/><br/>“Like I said, man,” Matt continued to speak in his annoying tone of voice. “Welcome to your worst nightmare. You’re stuck with us now.”<br/><br/>“In this ‘void’?” said Travis.<br/><br/>“<span style="font-style: italic">The</span>Void,” corrected Matt.<br/><br/>Travis estimated that they’d been walking for about an hour now, as a group of misfits trailing after these two strange individuals. They’d left the forest and volcano behind a while ago, and were now travelling through a more mundane field of dirt and rocks. The recent increase in viscosity of the air around them had led to a little bit of panic earlier, but Celine had insisted that it wasn’t dangerous… though moving through what felt like highly fluid water was slightly more difficult than usual.<br/><br/>“So it<span style="font-style: italic">is </span>a dream?” asked Travis.<br/><br/>“Kind of yes, kind of no,” Matt replied immediately. It seemed like this wasn’t his first time explaining this. “It’s not the real world, but you’re not exactly dreaming either. Not anymore.”<br/><br/>“What’s that supposed to mean?” This was all starting to sound a bit ridiculous to him.<br/><br/>“Well, that’s the thing, no one really knows what’s up,” said Matt. “But once someone reaches a certain level of lucidity, they end up here.”<br/><br/>“In short,” Celine interrupted after having been silent for a while. “All of us Lucids are trapped in this world with no real way out. The only thing we have left now is to survive as long as we can.”<br/><br/>“But if this place… the Void… is a dream world, can’t we just wake up?” Travis asked.<br/><br/>Celine shrugged. “There's been a lot people who believed that they’d just wake up if they died. Some of them even resorted to suicide in order to get back to the real world faster.” She stopped for a moment and looked back. “The problem is that no one knows if you actually make it back alive. It’s a gamble.” She resumed her forward march. “We should be nearing the Fortress soon.”<br/><br/>Death wasn’t exactly what Travis had meant, but the explanation was enough. Evidently, they weren’t going to wake up naturally either.<br/><br/>“Any more questions, my students?” Matt’s voice was even more annoying when it was distorted by the viscous air.