I’m tired, he thought. I shouldn’t be having to do this. I don’t have either the strength or the ability to stand up to Rondel. Maybe I should quit and hope they can find someone else.
But he knew that was hopeless. There simply was no one else, and there wasn’t enough time even if there were. He alone was responsible for rescuing these people; he alone could save Janet from this fate.
An idea occurred to him. Perhaps he need not be completely alone in this fight. Janet was a Dreamer by profession, a damned good one—and, like everyone else in this Dream, she had free will. If he could go to her and restore her memory of the real world, she could help him in his crusade. Her knowledge of how to manipulate Dreams, combined with his, would make a force Rondel couldn’t fight. She didn’t have
