[There's a long pause, the kind of pause an adult has when a child says something utterly strange and you have to weigh encouraging their creativity versus reining in their lying.]

The dream, huh? I guess it does feel sort of like a dream down here.

[Then again, wouldn't this being a dream make a lot more sense? But, if it were a dream, wouldn't any of the terrifying events from earlier have woken her up? Maybe with the rude bump of her falling off the couch at home?]

So you've got someone but not right this second... [she can at least put that together]

Well, how about you keep me company for a little while? This doesn't seem like a great place to wander around alone.