Panic
Dietrian began to panic that not seeing further than that meant he wouldn't have Riley anymore once her hair was no longer blue. That couldn't be it! Could it? She had promised she would stay with him to celebrate his birthday every year!
He hadn't really paid attention to it much before now because he had been too happy to be with her but he hadn't had a single dream of their future since they met. Not one.
Come to think of it…he hadn't had any dreams since then. Not even about the sort of random things that used to happen back in the magicians' tower. Why was that? Had he lost his dream magic now that so many of the dreams had come to pass in another world? He didn't know what he was supposed to think but he was worried.