Again, a silence, although not so long as the one that passed between them previously. "Luo Binghe does not care for me," Lan Wangji says, in a clear understatement. "The dream was crafted with cruelty, and I could not escape it." He hesitates. "I have experienced dreams from outside my own mind, or within it but influenced by another factor, before. They have a certain clarity and solidity that most dreams do not."