You, Gideon, Lavi, and Four. You were going off... on a journey, and I was your professor.

[ he shifts a little, and gestures low with his hand. ]

You were all...maybe ten years old, and I was giving you a little companion, a creature. [ and not at all a nightmarish horror ] And sending you off on a heartwarming journey.

That part, at least, was a charming, charming dream. [ no danger - which was what made it so wrong, really, in comparison. ] You were a very cute ten year old.