[Ah. It's easy to forget how perceptive Usagi can be sometimes. Never about academic things, only about people. Rei almost laughs, chiding herself internally for how she had forgotten this fact.]

...It's complicated. But, the short version is no.

[Just to answer the question, and...so she can continue.]

This place is a dream, as Sodder says in the note. I have not met her personally. The deer are just that, deer. Animals. They're the only native beings in this dream that you should trust. The locals may seem friendly, but that's a lie. A trap.

[She rounds a street, turning down deeper into Dunwich Hollow.]

I'm...very serious about that. Those people are basically a death cult.