Open your eyes?

When you feel as if you've woken up, you clearly haven't. In fact, where you stand is familiar, so you don't fret for long. The void you find yourself standing in is none other than the place Aris has spoken to you a few times before. It's a strange landscape of nothing but black, yet you can look down and clearly see your body as if it were fully lit. You stand naked, but what truly surprises you is that you aren't here alone. You turn your head to see Eva, Niki, and Amara present as well, and they look far more confused. They've never experienced this before.

"Wah!" Eva covers up her body as she looks around in surprise. "What's happening?"

"Oh yeah. This is how Aris communicates with people in their sleep," you respond.

Niki hesitates. She does cover up, though not as frantically as her bunny companion. "Weird. But does that mean we're all sharing a dream or something?"

"Perhaps something like that," says Amara who doesn't seem to care to cover herself, perhaps because this isn't reality, or because she's not all that bashful after the night you just shared together.

Just as before, a figure appears in a flickering glitch. She's a being of nebulae, like the shape of a woman though made up only of the night sky. Her beautiful hair flows to the side like a cloud of stars and cosmic gasses, and as she peers at you with two piercing lights, her voice reverberates in your mind as she has no mouth to be seen. "Ah. This is unexpected," she says. "Greetings again, all of you."

"Hey, Aris," Niki says casually.

"What is unexpected?" Amara asks.

"Well, it isn't unheard of," she responds. "To have multiple people enter here simultaneously. I just didn't mean for it to happen. It seems the four of you share a powerful bond. That and I assume you're all sleeping together right now, aren't you? Well, this should make for a pleasant conversation then, if you're all still basking in your afterglow."

"C-Can you not say it like that?" Eva mutters under her breath.

"I have come to say that I believe great yet terrifying things are soon to happen," Aris says. "Nae is a dangerous ally for this Elok Daven to have, and I believe her to be up to no good as we speak. Come the morning, I will be coming to visit you in the flesh, or so to speak. I said I would be there when the battle came, and that time seems to be steadily approaching. I trust this is fine."

"It is," you reply. "I'd love to have you."

"We'll speak more when I arrive, just in case Nae is somehow listening even now."

"Don't worry, Aris. We will stop her. And all of them. I think I already have a plan. Tomorrow, we'll have a grand meeting and begin the final ****."

"Until then, sleep. Rest. Enjoy each other's company. The connection between the four of you is the strongest I've ever seen. Use that. It'll be the key to your victory."

Then with another flicker, she disappears. You're only left with the others for a brief moment before everything shuts off like a switch has been flicked. At that point, you're taken right back to your sleep, however, so you remember nothing more until your eyes open for real come morning.