One November night a year after Jack and Rosanna were reunited, a young woman with black hair and brown eyes named Maya was gazing out the window of a college dorm room in Oklahoma. She was supposed to be asleep, but she had a big test coming up and was too worried to sleep. Maya was very annoyed, she wanted to see her dream. Nowadays her dreams were among the few times when she was actually happy.

She suddenly jumped back startled: there was a golden man on a golden cloud sending golden tendrils all over. She opened the window.

"Excuse me?" She said quietly, not wanting to wake up her roommate Ernestine.

Sandy, startled, turned around and saw Maya. It was his turn to jump back.

"Hello." Maya smiled.

Sandy pointed to himself.

"Yes you." Maya chuckled. "There's no one else outside."

Sandy flew closer and made images above his head: an eye and him.

"Yes I can see you, why are you surprised?" Maya asked.

Sandy was at first surprised that she could understand his images, but then went back to the topic at hand. He couldn't think of an image that meant 'belief' so he made images of paper and pen.

"One moment." Maya went to grab a piece of paper and a pen and gently removed the screen from the window.

Sandy accepted the paper and pen, and wrote on it: Only those who believe in me can see me.

"Oh I see..." Maya read the paper and then looked up as if she realized something. "Wait, you're the sandman aren't you?"

Sandy nodded.

"It's great to finally meet you, I've been wanting to meet you and the others for a long time." Maya smiled. "You know, Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and such. You see I've always known that you guys are real, I've always believed in you."

Sandy made a question mark above his head.

"Well...I had a rough past so I kept on believing in you guys to give me comfort." Maya now looked sad; Sandy gave her a sympathetic look. "And I never stopped. Oh, sorry I forgot to introduce myself: my name is Maya."

Sandy smiled and made swirling sand go around him.

"Hm, sand...Sandy. That's your name isn't it?" Maya smiled again.

Sandy nodded, still smiling.

"Nice to meet you Sandy. Say, can you help me out? I can't fall asleep, too worried about this upcoming test." Maya said.

Sandy nodded again. Maya replaced the screen, got back into bed, and Sandy sent one of his dream tendrils to her. He was surprised by her dream: originally he sent her a dream of being on a flying unicorn (or alicorn rather), but she changed it to her flying with Santa Claus and the others, including Sandy himself. Sandy then realized that Maya had a strong imagination and had probably even daydreamed before, for only those with strong imaginations can control their dreams.