Pepper's mind tends to multitask, but when he tells her that this is a dream the entire place seems to stop. The concept of this being a dream, of her dreaming something she'd tried to bury so deep inside herself, it was almost like her mind was trying to rebel against her.

Something else hit her. She didn't know this man, had never met him or talked with him over the network ... at least not that she remembered. How could someone she didn't know be in her dream? "Then how are you here?"