So...About Dream Sharing I freely admit I'm stealing this whole hog from Fraggle Rock, the actual Dream Sharing was only featured in one episode 'Boober's Dream' and was never shown again in any of the episodes of the classic series (Though the reason for the Dream Sharing Boober's alter ego Sidebottom did feature in two more episodes after that) but anyway even the rhyme 'Dream and Dream and See' is straight from Fraggle Rock but anyway the verse whoever says the verse or at least the first part of it is the mind who plays the 'host' and any other minds are the 'guests' for the most part the guest minds don't have to worry about revealing anything they don't want to when in the host's mind.

At first Don and Arctica thought they would have to wait for 'Lights Out' time that night to begin the Dream Sharing but after a few moments, Arctica's sharp wolf ears caught the sounds of Karl and Igor snoring...Confirming beyond the shadow of a doubt that they were out cold from drinking Otto's booze so they were safe to do it now without being caught.

Don lay a bit awakwardy, obviously because of his shell, not easy for him to lie on his back on a hard floor with that shell.

Then Arcica said "The spell doesn't care about the postion you're in! Just as long the parts of our heads that contain our brains are touching!"

"You mean craniums?" Don said so with that he lay on his head on stuck his head through the hole in the bars he had just made...

Arctica did the same, despite the spikey appearance of her 'head fur' her the fur felt just as soft as Splinter's fur...Don realized it was curious how she had such a hairdo since if Feral would provide so much as a chamberpot for his captives it was even less likely would would provide things for their appearance like hair gel.

"All right..." Arctica said "...You feel like you can fall asleep again?"

"At this point..." Don said "...I feel like my mind is willing to do anything to escape this nightmare, if only for a little while..."

Arctica smiled then she recited the verse all Humanimals know as soon as they are old enough to speak, although they don't know how or why they know... "Dream and dream and see...What a dream can be..."

'Why on Earth is the secret such a childish rhyme...' Don thought as his eyes closed and he was not only subsumed into Dream Land...But into Arctica's Mind...Into her own personal Dream Land...

Don felt himself floating downward towards a bright and cheerful landscape, of bright green meandows with a few hills in the distance among those hills were a few clusters of trees, above the sky was so blue and the clouds so white that for someone who didn't get to see the sky as often as he liked it didn't seem real it was like the sky in a fairytale book or in a Saccrine cartoon...Come to think of it the grass also seemed to be a little too well manicured to be natural it seemed more like a golf course

"Welcome to my Happy Meadow..." Arcica said "...This is the place I imagine to keep me sane."

"Is this a place you lived?" Don asked "Seems a little warm for an Arctic Species..."

"Yeah I know..." Arctica said "...But my family had to stay in a land where it never snowed because it was essentual to our family business."

"Oh?" Don said "What was your family business?"

"Perfume manufacturing." Arctica said "But I can tell you about that after we escape..."

"Fine with me." Don said although he was already asking questions in his head about why the family needed to stay in a hot climate to manufacture perfume.

"So here's the thing..." Arctica said as she drew a circle in the air causing a window to form showing whatever she wanted to show, right now it showed a picture of Igor.

"Igor the rat mutant who is Feral's animal keeper...He clearly knows something...More than once he came up to me saying 'I know you've got something even though I can't detect it, I'm going to find what it is and once I do I'm going to make sure Feral destroys you!' Finally I just asked what he was talking about and for a moment he was completely baffled and admitted psychic powers...Admitting he has the ability to sense psychic powers in others."

"Well do you have psychic powers?" Don said "I mean...This Dream Sharing thing sure seems like psychic powers to me..."

"Well...Maybe..." Arctica said "...But every Humanimal has the ability to Dream Share."

"Humanimal?" Don cocked his head "I thought you were a Mutant?"

"The Pig said I was a Mutant..." Arctica said "Because he doesn't believe I'm from another world, I said Humanimal which is short for Humanoid Animal where I'm from we're all called Humanimals."

"In all honesty that could also be a name of Mutants as well," Don said stroking his chin "...But there's no guarantee all Mutants be humanoid, there could be an intelligent mutant animal who looks eactly like a normal four legged animal...And if you're a different...Breed of intelligent animal entirely...That might explain why Igor can't detect whatever powers you do have, he maybe only able to tune in the brain waves of Mutant Animals not your kind."

"I mean Dream Sharing might not be 'Psionics' as he described it...It might be flat out magic as we don't know how or why we know how to do it also in my dreams I've been receiving messages since I came to this world messages about how to survive and get back home...I was told I would have to wait until a Mutant came who believed me..."

Arctica's family business being perfume manufacturing is a recycling of an older story I'll get into more details in later chapters