"You have been researching this for some time it seems," Valdis said, "Have you been doing it on your own?"

She wouldn't put it past the woman to research weird things alone, but this Dreaming seemed so complex that she suspected that Raine had someone helping her. Not that the woman wasn't smart enough, but the planes were complex.

She herself had the ability to manipulate the spiritual and physical planes to an extent, but she didn't understand how any of it worked. Then again, she had never tried to understand, and perhaps that was where her problem was.