Merlin has two noteworthy options, here. And while attempting to strip the goddesses of her awareness that this is a dream is most certainly tempting indeed, he admittedly is kind of having fun with his videogame theme here.

Which is to say, the dream quite literally pauses. Even her ghostly servant is frozen in place, leaving only the dreamer herself aware of the suddenly dimmed and stilled surroundings. Well, the dreamer, and the one in charge of the dream, that is.

"But then you might not get to see how this ends, you know," he points, from where he'd been sitting all along.