"You can do whatever you want."
With this new information, I look back up at the woman. She's younger, maybe in her 30's. She leans her head up against a doorway across the department and gives me a sad look, silent. I stand up from the cake and leave with Tom. I follow him down a hallway. I notice a dark shadowy figure that we're following. He tells me that this is apart of my dream and we're following them into an elevator.
When we get to the elevator he again reminds me I'm dreaming and tells me to look at the button panel to prove it. Only the buttons 6 and 8 are there. I smile and think of Paci. I look down and there she is at my feet, smiling back up at me, wagging her tail, tangled in cell phone charger wires.
When the doors open, we are standing in an apartment. This is Tom's mother's apartment. The lights are dim and we walk into a warmly decorated living room and kitchen. The bedroom door is open, Tom's mother is sitting in bed and happily greets me, but doesn't get up. Tom begins to touch me. I get upset because we're in his mother's apartment. But he reminds me again that I'm dreaming. And I let him touch me wherever he wants.
After all this, he tells me we're leaving again. Kyra is now in the apartment with us. We walk over to the kitchen and tells me to climb through the cabinet. I'm confused and wonder how it's an exit. Again he needs to remind me I can do anything I want. Kyra climbs in and up somewhere. I ask her how it felt going through this supposed portal. She calls up from an above unknown place that it was a little squishy, but she's in a large space now. And I crawl into it and pop out in a mattress store.
