The dream world looked very much like the real world, from a certain point of view. He focussed on Karyn and saw her room around her, a bit blurry--except that whenever she looked at something it turned solid. Suddenly Karyn got up from where she was sitting and stared at the wall. "Mom, I wish I could explain it," she said.
"Come on out!" yelled a voice.
Karyn walked through the wall. Jon quietly followed, and Karyn ended up in the living room with her mother. Of course he had been to her house and knew that that wall didn't have the living room on the other side, but then it was a dream.
"Just a minute, Mom," said Karyn.
"No, you don't! I don't care what your problem is but you are going to tell me...."
"Just a minute!" She turned to Jon, slowly. As if trying to concentrate on something. "You should knock, Jon," she said. "Geez, I feel like I'm going to wake up. Whenever you do that half the time I think about it too hard and wake up. At least this one isn't too private."
"Pardon?" said Jon.
Karyn closed her eyes, furrowed her brow, and opened them. "Jon, we have school tomorrow, you know."
"You're taking this entirely too calmly, Karyn."
"What? Haven't you always been able to go into people's dreams?" And then it occurred to Jon how the stone worked. Anything he wished for was seen as normal.
Karyn's mother yelled, the words getting louder and louder, to the point where windows shattered and the two would have gone deaf, if it hadn't been a dream. "Tell... me!"
Karyn put her hands on her hips. "All right, wise guy. So you're going to try to analyze that. It's not hard. I want to tell my Mom that I just got transformed but I can't, and I'm worried about not being able to tell her, right?"
"I guess," said Jon. "I'm sort of new at this. What was that about not being too private?"
"There was that time when you came into my dream without knocking and saw me try to... uhh, you always remembered to knock for a long time after seeing that one."
"This isn't at all going as I had planned..." said Jon.
