"It's a meditation technique...not even properly magic at all. Mostly it is a way to organize and give form to your thoughts, and through which you can control the way your mind accesses dreams. My purpose with Emil would be to help him open up the dreams of his past to help give us more information. It would not be an immediate fix, nor a guarantee, but there is no harm in learning it," Felix explained.

Of course, he'd been sworn to secrecy in various blood-curdling ways to never talk about it, but that had been in the Mirador, and the man who had helped him was dead, and most of all, this was just a boy who needed help.