Oh, well, that's also bad. Orpheus assumes if anyone could reach Hypnos from here, it would be Thanatos. So that means they really are cut off from everything in Deerington. That's existentially terrifying, and it shows on Orpheus face as he considers this new fact.

"They always do," he says, although he sounds sort of hesitant about it. Not because he doesn't believe it to be true, but because in his experience the Fates' plans don't seem to generally go all that well for him. Maybe that's a selfish way of looking at it, though.

"I'm not the smartest person here, and I haven't been here as long as some of the others, but. I think part of the reason we're here is to help each other? Not just the other people caught in the dream like we are, but Sodder and her family and friends, and the people who lived in the town before we came along. Like I said, I don't always understand things perfectly, but they seem to be stuck here too, and they've been going through it for a really long time."