"If I want them to be?" Rowan echoes doubtfully. "I didn't think that was how it worked."

Besides, he only really wants one person to be interested in him, he thinks, and she's an entire dimension away.

"Not a nightmare like I'm going to freak out, but a nightmare like--" Like he's scared? Yeah. A little. But he's not about to admit that to the man in front of him, no matter how much his mouth wants to run away from him.

"Like showing up to school naked. Or forgetting everybody's name. That kind of nightmare."