The vague touch of Stella's hand. The vague glimmer of her voice. Both are only things that are like a buzzing and nothing more. Barely even slightly registered either thing. It wasn't letting go of him until she moved. Even then he didn't wake until he felt the water splash all over him. The water hissed and sizzled away into steam the moment it touches his skin. Ari bolted up so quickly that he half flew and half fell off the bed. Landing with a loud crash on the ground. "Ow!" he says. Tears were trickling their day his cheeks. He just lay there. "Sorry Stella...it was that dream again. I saw the rest of it. Betrayed by my own brother...Akmon...he is why I was encased in crystal." He tells her the entire dream.