[It takes a few more minutes with the trash can before Ion can even attempt words again. After a few coughs, he finally seems well enough to speak without sounding quite so dazed.]
It was... it was just a dream, wasn't it? [The question is only half rhetorical.] And I'm... not still dreaming, right?
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It was... it was just a dream, wasn't it? [The question is only half rhetorical.] And I'm... not still dreaming, right?