A few minutes later, I heard Coco, Crash's sister in the distance, speaking to someone. "Well we didn't bring you along for nothing. We would have preferred to leave you back on N. Sanity Island so there wouldn't be a fight in the first place... So go and be useful! Maybe now's your chance to help her". So Coco was actually speaking to Cortex whom I thought was trying to shoot Crash in the main part of the fortress. Maybe Coco had broken up the fight between them. I didn't see Coco though, I just saw Cortex approaching me again. He took a massive sigh before he began to speak, I know it was difficult for him to get his evil tongue to try and say something good. "Uh, so I hear there's this guy called the Chronicler, right? And the only way you can reach him is through your sleep". I nodded in affirmation to Cortex. The crystal ball was then flashing white which usually meant that I was to approach it as it wanted to say something to me. When I was close enough to the crystal ball, it showed a vision of me by myself in the dreamscape from last night but I looked damaged and weak. It then showed a similar image but this time, Cortex was there and I was flashing white. It must be that the crystal ball was trying to communicate a message with me that originally Cortex wanted to get across. But the vision didn't stop there... It kept going. It whizzed out of the dreamscape and into my bedroom to show me under the sheets but the lump was bigger than usual. Maybe it was representing that Cortex was a source of power that I could use in dream. Was is maybe also suggesting to sleep with him, just like when I was at his lab in 2012?

The crystal ball had then gone blank which meant it had nothing else to show me. I was actually starting to get a hang of the crystal ball's rituals without Sindo being around. When I then turned to face Cortex again, I saw him nodding very slowly. He was signalling to me, making the personal offer to go to bed with me tonight in hopes that maybe he'd also be in the same dreamscape and help me more sense of the Chronicler. It became night-time very quickly and I saw Cortex from my top balcony, in the dim lightened central room, talking to both Scarlett and Sindo. I couldn't tell what they were talking about but one part did worry me where Cortex gave an evil snigger, but then maybe that was just due to his nature and he didn't mean any harm... Or alternatively, he was plotting something that I was unaware of. But then straight away after that snigger came a sound of pity or innocence, I can't explain it exactly. That's when Cortex looked up and saw me in my sleepwear. "Oh she's ready", he said to Scarlett and Sindo. "Remember what to do young man", Sindo commented, "And be kind to her", added Scarlett.

He then came up the stairs and escorted me into my bedroom. Once the door was shut, he sat me down on the bed and told me what he was talking about with Sindo and Scarlett. It's just what I guessed, that he was coming to help me find out more about the Chronicler, although at one point he did say that he couldn't believe what he had sworn himself into and even blamed it on Coco. In the end, he accepted his statement and pulled the sheets up, signalling for me to go under first. He then followed, putting the sheets back over and pulling me close to him. It wasn't long before we both drifted off and that same celestial dreamscape came into view.

Karla: It's cold here

Voice: Yes, the effects of your day to day struggle have caused your heart to become somewhat frozen, letting off traces of your natural element.

Cortex in the distance: Frozen? Are you serious? You do something about it at once!

Voice: Do not interrupt the sequence. Her powers will develop in time.

- Ruth comes out of nowhere but quickly approaches Karla with a menacing look her face. Karla uses Thrift Time to allow herself to reflect before Ruth hits her.

Karla: Help me, I'm dying! I don't have much time...

Voice: Struggle is indeed upon you, find me in the celestial caves of the White Isle.

- A vision is shown of the location of these celestial caves on the White Isle.

I wake up the next morning to find myself shivering in bed, although Cortex was holding me tightly all night. Cortex then wakes up himself and the first thing he says to me is, "Why are you shivering?". I didn't know what to tell him as I was unsure if he would understand my dream. I told him anyway and found out that he had the exact same dream but from a different perspective. As always, I had the intention of writing the dream down for future reference and reflection. Cortex slowly released me as he then pulled the sheets off the bed and allowed me to go and get my dream journal. I was going to write it on my desk but Cortex told me to come back and sit on his lap, so that's what I did. I took the dream journal back, got comfortable on his lap and leaned the book on a pillow so that I could easily write while being strapped him by his arms latching around my waist.