#dream smp transcript

*Text*: Sound effects *Laughs* *Sighs* *Pickle sounds*

(Text): Actions, descriptions, or lulls (Pause) (Long Pause) (Looks away) (Loudly)

/Text: Overlapping lines

Pickle: Pickle.

https://youtu.be/Djy6uPtIKiE 

Starts at 2:52:50

Foolish: I am a rich man, Tommy. 

Tommy: Well, cool. I’m not.

Foolish: *Laughs* You’re wearing full Netherite armor. Well, besides the iron boots.

Tommy: Well I borrowed from Tubbo, so I could go and fight Dream.

(Pause)

Foolish: ...Oh, how’d that go? (Pause) ...Wait, you fought Dream?

Tommy: …*Frustrated sigh*

Tommy: (Heading to the Pickle) Do you hear that, do you hear that?!

Foolish: N-No no, no, nono, no no no, that is an important question!

Tommy: Do you hear that?!

Foolish: That is an important question!

Tommy: *Pickle sound effect* Ayyy! /Amen brother, amen! 

Foolish: /No no, bad, no, shut up Pickle!

Foolish: What do you mean, you fought Dream?

Tommy (Quietly): ...W-Well, y’know… you’ve seen Wilbur, haven’t you?

Foolish: No, no, actually. Well, actually, it’s been a while since I’ve seen Ghostbur…. Probably, like, a few weeks ago. Lovely guy, I like Ghostbur.

(Long pause, Tommy looks down at the floor)

Foolish: Do you need Pickle time? You seem upset.

Tommy: Nope. We just mine.

Foolish: Just mine? Okay! Okay..

Tommy: *Long sigh* … Ghostbur’s, um, Ghostbur’s not here anymore.

Foolish: Oh, did he pack up? Move out? Got bored? He seemed like a free spirit.

Tommy: Yeah, he moved out, um, to this little train station, far away. There’s a little train station, you know, right near the world border. There’s a little train station. 

Foolish: Oh, well that’s cool! I wanna see that sometime. (Pause) ...I was thinking about building a train myself, actually, I was gonna call it The Hype Train. 

Tommy: ...That’s really cringe.

Foolish: Well, I-I disagree, That depends on your definition of cringe. 

Tommy: You hit it, the nail on the head.

Foolish: No, I disagree, I-

Tommy: There’s a little, um, there’s a little train station, out near the world border, and Ghostbur went, but he left Friend. 

Foolish: He left Friend?

Tommy: But we’ll get Friend to him soon. 

Foolish: Oh.

Tommy: Because then he’ll be happy. ...But no, um, Ghostbur left, and I, I went to prison, to go and….

Tommy: (Pause) How much can you… take, Foolish? 

Foolish: Take? What do you mean?

Tommy: Blood. Blood. Does that upset you?

Foolish: Uuum, mm, see, okay, okay, I-I don’t really, do that anymore. I haven’t killed a soul since being here. I don’t really do killing.

Tommy: (Slightly shaky) Ouh...well, um. I went to go and kill Dream, Foolish, you see, you know he killed me, don’t you? /And uh-

Foolish: /Yeah, I’m aware that- Wait, speaking of which, h- I never really asked you, you know, I knew it was kind of a touchy subject… How exactly are you back?

(Long silence. They stare at each other.)

Foolish: Okay, okay, maybe wrong question, wrong question…. Y’know, one step at a time…

Tommy: Alright, I don’t really feel comfortable talking about that with you, Foolish, /if I’m honest.

Foolish: /Okay, okay, no, fair enough,

Tommy: But, um…. *coughs* No.

Foolish: So, you fought Dream?

Tommy: Yeah.

Foolish: Recently? 

Tommy: Well, I tried to, and then Wilbur, uh, was revived, he was revived, and he came back, uuuh, and now he’s… I don’t know where he’s gone, (Energetically) but all I know is I’m proving that bitch wrong, ay?!

Foolish: Wait, what do you mean-

Tommy: Because he told me, he told me I’m weak! He told me I couldn’t even lift… lift my whole weight, six-foot-three, and now, I’m, what I’m doing is I’m going and I’m picking up all this stone to prove him, I’m gonna get it and I’m gonna fucken go “Yeah, bitch!”

Foolish: You’re… gathering stone… wait okay, I have so many questions, but we'll just stick to one question at a time…. You’re gathering stone… to prove that, you’re a…a man? 

Tommy: Well, I already know I’m a man, just to, fucken prove him wrong. And I need to, uh-

Foolish: That you can… gather stone? 

Tommy: (Pause, quieter) Well, y-yeah. Fuckin’, I don’t know how to speak to you, man. 

Foolish: I don’t really see how this solves the problem…?

Tommy: Well, it doesn’t solve the problem, it’s preventing the problem, Foolish, alright? Have you noticed that all the problems come, the-they don’t get solved, do they, alright? It ends up with some madman screaming he’s solved it, alright, and now he’s- and then look at ‘im, alright, now he’s taken away everyone's favorite man. Ghostbur, alright? Problems don’t really get solved on this server.

Foolish: No, no, yeah, I-I suppose you’re right….

Tommy: Yeah. /Well, that’s what I’m doing- 

Foolish: /Well, how do we go about changing that? By gathering stone?

Tommy: No! Well, what I’m doing, my friend, is preventing the problem. Before it gets out of hand, like it did before, alright? *Sigh*

Foolish: So… Wilbur’s back… Uumm, okay, yep, I’ll just- I’ll- I’m not even gonna ask how he’s back, that’s-that’s a question for another day-- and you’re here, just, you’re trying to stop him? You don’t- You don’t like that he’s back? I- Weren’t you guys friends at some point? 

Tommy: Listen. Listen, alright. /Come over here Foolish,

Foolish: /I’m still a little fuzzy on everything,

Tommy: Let me-Let me show you something, alright? You-You’re still very new ‘round here, /I’m not really sure... what you are, but, come over here, alright? 

Foolish: /Yeah yeah yeah.

Tommy: (Leads him to L’manberg) You see this? L’manberg. 

Foolish: Oh yeah, I’ve heard this before.

Tommy: This was mine and Wilbur’s na- It was Wilbur’s nation, (shakily) it was Wilbur’s, which makes it all the more heart-wrenching, alright? And he decided, that even, *sigh* and he doesn’t mean this, but even though at the time--when we made this?--it was to get away from Dream, because Dream, wouldn’t let us do what we wanted to. He told us that we had to live under his big, iron fist, but we went “No, Dream, that’s not fair, is it?” alright, you don’t think that’s fair, do you Foolish? 

Foolish: No, no, /so you were a couple revolutionaries...revolutionists, basically.

Tommy: /We can’t- People want to do what they want. So we made this nation, yeah, we made a nation, and it was glorious, and it was amazing! People challenged it, sure, but we got through it! 

Tommy: *Heavy sigh* And then to try and con--you really don’t know the story?-- /and then to try and consolidate our power... we held an election. 

Foolish: /I mean...yeah.

Tommy: Now… *Sigh*

Foolish: Oh man, you’re saying there used to government here? Oof.

Tommy: Now, the problem with an election is it kinda puts all your life on the line, which can be good, if you’re confident, but perhaps we were a little overconfident… and because of that, Foolish, well, we, um…. We lost! To the hands of JSchlatt, right here, actually, right about here is where we lost. 

Foolish: Oh. 

Tommy: And Schlatt banished us. Now, we were okay, when- I was okay, when we were banished, and I knew that we’d get it back, that we’d talk about it, right, as you said, peace is the option.

Foolish: Mhm.

Tommy: ...But here’s the thing, Foolish. Wilbur didn’t want to do anymore talking, he’d given up with that, because some people aren’t strong enough, alright, some people stop talking. 

Tommy: ...You know the phrase “treat others how you’d want to be treated”, Foolish? /That’s a really important phrase.

Foolish: /Yeah! Yeah (nods)

Tommy: And people hear it, you hear your teachers say it, you hear it when you’re young, people don’t ever listen to it, “treat others how you’d want to be treated”. Wilbur disregarded that rule. He decided that... he wanted to be treated poorly, so he’d treat everyone else poorly.

Foolish: Why do you think that? 

Tommy: *Sigh* Honestly, I…. Sometimes I don’t know, myself. (Pause). But this block here, (Gestures to TNT at Wilbur’s shrine), he used this and he blew up L’manberg and...shattered it into a million pieces. Now, Wilbur, he was a good man, he is a good man, deep inside him, alright? /But he’s been a-

Foolish: /So you’re saying there’s still redemption for him? 

Tommy: Well, he’s been a good man deep inside him, but he’s been a bad guy for a very, very long time. And I know that there’s still good in him, there’s still good in everyone, really, Foolish, even if they are all assholes, and wankers, and… but-

Foolish: Do you believe in second chances? 

Tommy: No, I don’t. I don’t really believe in second chances, I don’t- that’s not really a thing for me, Foolish, it’s just that… *sigh*...I believe everyone’s got a little bit of good in them. And I know that Wilbur had good in him, alright, so I won’t g-

Foolish: You said “had”?

Tommy:...Yeah, he did, because when we made this nation- although now he seems to claim- he claimed to me, Foolish, that the nation (slams fists on irl desk) we built together! *Shaky inhale* ...He claimed that it was all just a ruse for power. Now, I think that Wilbur’s just being a bad guy, alright, and that’s okay, we’re all bad guys, everyone messes up, it’s- you learn the most from your mistakes. He’s made so many mistakes, so many that have hurt so many people, but, what this is gonna be about isn’t giving him a second chance, isn't giving him a third chance, it’s not about chances, Foolish! It’s about making sure you don’t give up on the people you care about. So I know you’re still really new to this server, and I know you’ve built lots of things, 

Foolish: (Nods) Yeah, yeah,

Tommy: So I know if you really care about someone, do not give up on them, Foolish, don’t give up on people, alright? /Because that’s how you lose.

Foolish: /You know, Tommy, I think I had you wrong. I think I had you wrong.

(They leave L’manberg)

Tommy: Oh, I don’t know what that means. 

Foolish: Well I just, y’know, you’re a little more...mature than I thought you would be. I thought you were just a loud, obnoxious, y’know what I mean, do-what-you-want, y’know, a couple muggings here and there, but no, maybe there’s more to you than meets the eye.

Tommy: Well, I still do that, obviously, because it’s funny. And it’s fun-

Foolish: Well, *Laughs nervously* Nah, I mean- I understand…. But maybe there’s more to you, Tommy, than I thought. 

Tommy: Thanks, I guess. (Begrudgingly) ..Maybe there’s more to you, too.

Foolish: Oh, there’s so much….

Tommy: Okay.

Foolish: Do you consider yourself to be the good guy or the bad guy? 

Tommy: ...That really depends who you ask, doesn’t it, you know? If you ask Dream, he’d say I’m- he’d say I’m his little- I’m his little play- (shakily) his little toy, that he plays with, y’know? It doesn’t… 

Tommy: *Inhale* Foolish, honestly, I used to consider myself the “good guy”, y’know, the fucken second in command, going around and going “yeah, let’s do this!” yeah, but recently… these past….

Tommy: …*Shaky breath* (Quietly) These past 6 months, or so, Foolish, everything got so much harder than it was before, but, because before it was just “us fighting the bad guys!” but it was also clear, y’know, it was all so clear,

Foolish: Yeah, nothing muddy,

Tommy: But it’s not been clear for so long, alright? It wasn’t “these are the bad guys, these are the good guys,” now it’s, “he’s doing this, and that makes him a bit worse, that makes him a bit-”, it all got so fucking complicated, so… I don’t know. It depends on who you ask, but… *sigh*

Foolish:  I dunno, it all seems strange, cause, just hearing from others, and y’know, learning a little bit, it seems like you’ve been… the hero, you’ve been, the villain, the conqueror, the savior, and even now I still have no idea what you exactly are. 

Tommy: Well, that’s up to you to decide, isn’t it? I’m just a… I dunno, these days Foolish, I’m a little weaker than I used to be. I’m not who I want to be, but… *long sigh*

Foolish: I’m gonna be honest with you, Tommy, that’s the same case for me as well. 

Tommy: Oh, really? 

Foolish: Yeah, yeah yeah yeah

Tommy: Here’s the thing, Foolish, unlike you, I don’t really have a choice. I have to try and be who I want to be, ‘cause if I don’t… very bad things are going to happen on this server. And now Wilbur’s back, Foolish, I can’t… quite frankly, no one can risk that. So I don’t really have a choice. I’ll just keep on mining, I’ll and keep on pogchamping. 

Foolish: You’re just gonna pog through the pain? 

Tommy: I try to, and then Twitch deleted the Pog emote.

(They talk about Pogchamp and Lore Man for the rest of the stream [a very funny bit])

[sigh] I heard he's back. I- Why did no one tell me that you're back? Why do you have to be back? I thought I got rid of you; I thought I got rid of the thought of you in my head. And now you're back. What do you want, what do you want, why are you back? What are you doing here? And the only place that i feel safe, you have to invade- why? Because you always do that - you always have to be where I feel safe.

So what is your plan? What is your plan? Who are you going to manipulate next, huh? Because it's not going to be me this time- it's not gonna be me this time. What- what do i do- what do I do with him back? I have to get back. I have to get back. Who is he going to- who is he going to manipulate next? Tommy? Tubbo? ...Jack? No no no no no, Jack is way too smart to fall for- for his crap, right? For his lies, all his lies. He didn't even check up on me. He never checks up on me . I thought- I thought he cared about me, but he never checks up on me.

I need to get back. "He changed, he changed, he's a better man-" why would he change? He doesn't change, he just learns how to manipulate people more and more. He never changes or cares. He never cared- he never cared! But why would Dream revive him? Why would Dream revive him? Dream was his enemy; we fought against Dream, all of us! I guess at the end he was pretty fond of him. Two maniacs, leading countries, leading places and people, and forgetting about the people that they care about just for power. Just for power! This is what you did for power! You sold your soul, for power.

And now you're back, and the world revolves around around Wilbur again. Of course it does. You get a place at the only place, you get a bed at the only place that I care about; the only place that gave me safety and that made me- that made it even possible for me to heal. You have to be there again, of course you have to be there again, because you always do that- you always do that. God, I don't understand- I don't- what are they planning.

My god, this was supposed to be a good day. It was supposed to be Techno's birthday - Techno, the person- the person that that helped me. The person that- he didn't know, he- Techno didn't know. I'm not gonna blame it on other people again because I always did that - I always blamed your mistakes and your betrayal and you hurting me on other people, and look where it got me. Look where it got me. Got me nowhere, it got me nowhere. I haven't even finished my city. Why? Because I can't even sleep. I thought I got better, you know. I thought I stopped starving myself and throwing myself off of- off of my building to 'regenerate health'- yeah, of course. 'To heal'- of course, of course, to heal. No I can't sleep. No I can't- where is it, where is it, where is it, where did i put it? I don't remember.

There it is. I can't believe no one told me. I guess they knew what would happen. Maybe they don't care. You know what, why should i care. Why should I care. You were a ghost; you- you were- your body, i saw your dead body. I was- I- I saw the TNT, and I trusted you so much, and I didn't tell anyone. I- I didn't tell anyone, I covered it up, I- I put - I put stone on top of it so people wouldn't see the TNT and then you still blew it up. Because you never cared about us. You never cared about L'Manberg, and you never cared about the people living in L'Manberg. All you cared about was... yourself, because that's what you do. You care about yourself. And you've hurt people around you, but these people are- they still trust you, and I don't understand why. I don't understand why they will trust you. Because you were a ghost and you never even asked for me; you just forgot about me. I was alone for so long. I was alone for for months and months on end, because you never even cared about checking up on me.

[opens chest] This was your first gift to me. These three diamonds... I thought they meant something, I really did. Now they're just a memory. And I choose- I choose that you are also just a memory to me; you cannot hurt me anymore and you cannot promise me anything anymore and then walk away from me. I'm not letting you do this to me anymore. Because now I have friends. And I have people who care about me. And i know that you never did.

What's your plan? What is it you want back- back here? What is that Dream wants from you? Why would dream revive you? He knows what you are capable of and he still decided to re- to revive you.

I want to see it. I want to see the last place where I saw you dead and alive, for what's it worth. I want to see the house that we once built, the home where our friends lived. Everything you abandoned, because you had to be in power; because you had to destroy it. I want to see the pain that I had to go through; the things you promised me, and that you never kept. Because you told me, when Schlatt got elected and I had to run for my life because i would have been imprisoned, and I got- I got taxed, I got talked so much that my bakery- my baker- I couldn't hold- uphold it anymore, you promised me that you will get me out of there. And i waited for weeks, and I waited for months, and the next time I saw you you were not you anymore. You were not the person that I thought you were.

You never got to see the lights. I guess you did, when you were a ghost, but you- I never saw you. You would have loved- you would have loved the old L'Manberg. You would have loved the people living there, and the happiness that it stood for. You would have loved to see that, after you blew up your whole land, that tree was still standing. That stupid tree- that stupid tree - now look what happened. And you cannot tell me that you fought more for this country than anyone else because that is not true. We all fought for it, we all fought- fought for this country! The country you destroyed, the people you turned against! The people you- people thought that could trust you. But that never- got what they deserved. God, you deserve so much more.

And I couldn't save anyone, I couldn't save a single person. That's all i ever wanted. That's what i built my city for. My- my stupid city. Why was I so naive? I was so naive thinking that when you were still alive, maybe you could be rescued- maybe you could be rescued and you could- you could be happy. I thought you could be happy. But you will never be happy, because all you want is what you can't have. And when you have everything, what will you fight for? What will you fight for?

*Text*: Sound effects *Laughs* *Sighs*

(Text): Actions, descriptions, or lulls (Pause) (Long Pause) (Looks away) (Loudly)

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DREAM SMP | WHERE IS DREAM LORE STREAM - Twitch

Starts at 00:17:55

DREAM: I can’t be telling people about the book, if i tell people about the book, then- then just, I dunno, everyone becomes too powerful, what if- what if the wrong person...knows it?

(Long silence)

DREAM: I mean, I’m the perfect person to know.

SAM: How are you the perfect person to know? You’re not the good guy, Dream. Don’t pretend like you’re the good guy. We both know that’s not true.

DREAM: I don’t think that I’m a bad guy.

SAM: How are you not the bad guy?

DREAM: Well, I think, there’s, yknow, good people do bad things.I think, yknow, it’s just, / a matter of perspective, good guys, bad guys….

SAM: /Bad people do bad things.

SAM: So what you did to Tommy. You were just a good guy, doing a bad thing? Making a mistake?

(Dream stays silent for a long while.)

DREAM: Look, just don’t tell Quackity.

SAM: Y'know what? I might tell Quackity. It depends on what kind of shenanigans I see…. This is-

DREAM: I’m telling you, this is the only thing- Look everywhere, this is the only thing-

SAM: I’ve already been looking everywhere, Dream. *Sigh*. I- Fine. Fine. I won’t tell Quackity you’re still here.

DREAM: ...Okay....

SAM: But-

DREAM: Cause… you know he’ll kill me. But you’ll still have to feed me, and you still have to, yknow-

SAM: I mean, I don’t have to…. You have a few potatoes in here, I see you’ve been...eating half meals, or what?

DREAM: Yeah, we’ve been saving them, but….

SAM: Saving them so you could escape, right? Out of this… tunnel you were going to dig, under-

DREAM: No! Because you gave us raw potatoes, and we don’t have food half the time, so we’re saving them.

SAM: ...Who’s idea was it to eat raw potatoes, Dream, let’s remember that.

SAM: Y’know what, stay here. Don’t come towards the bridge. (Sam turns to leave)

DREAM: No! Wait….

DREAM: Look, okay, at least… I dunno, what if you let me- what if I… Can you- I dunno, anything, I’ve been in here for so long, Sam.

(Sam silently looks at him) DREAM: Can I go to the courtyard, y'know… can I-

SAM: Dream, what do you mean “can I go to the courtyard”?! You-You’re…! *sigh* I just had a situation where you were- you looked like you had disappeared!

(long silence)

DREAM: ...It’s secure, though….

SAM: ...Yeah. Why is the courtyard secure? You wanted to see the light, Dream, you wanted to see the outside.

DREAM, quietly: Yeah….

SAM: Guess what, Dream. Guess what. Guess what happened to the courtyard.

(long silence)

SAM: I sealed it up.

DREAM: Alright, I get it-

SAM: I sealed it up, yeah, I sealed it up, yknow why I sealed it up, Dream? ...Because it was a security flaw!

DREAM: Well, I didn’t know that-

SAM: Because it was a security flaw, Dream, that’s why I sealed it up. And the prisoner didn’t need to see the light, remember? Oh, and the steak, remember the steak, remember the potatoes, the steak? The cows? I was gonna cook the cows?

DREAM: ...Okay, well I didn’t know that I was gonna end up in here.

SAM: Right, right, so it was okay as long as someone else was the one eating the raw potatoes.

(Dream is silent)

SAM: Right? That’s when it was- when it was okay, that way, right? But now that it’s you, it- it’s not as fun, right? Yeah. ...And we can’t go to the courtyard, Dream, that’s a big security issue, big security flaw.

DREAM: ...May-Maybe you were right….

SAM: You think so? ...I can’t believe this, Dream….

DREAM: I didn’t realize how, bad it was…. I thought they’d be fine with potatoes, I thought they’d be fine with not seeing the courtyard…!

SAM: Hm.

DREAM: I get it, you wanted to be fancy, you wanted steak, and…. Light

SAM: Yeah. Yknow. Just because someone was locked in jail doesn’t mean they, yknow, deserve to...have nothing. ...You didn’t even- you didn’t even want to have books!

DREAM: Well, then put it back like that! Put it- Change it to you're- the way you wanted to do it. The way you wanted to do the prison, make all the changes-/ give me more stuff in here- (unintelligible)

SAM: /What is the trick here?! What’s the trick here, what’s the trick, is, like- What have you two planned?! You’re- there’s something, something’s wrong here.

DREAM: How is that a plan?! Me saying, / steak, and... seeing the light-

SAM: /Something’s here, something’s wrong here, something’s wrong here…. What are you planning?

DREAM: I didn’t know that- I wouldn’t- (inteligible)

SAM: You’ve never asked to go to the courtyard before, and now suddenly you want to go to the courtyard? After Technoblade has magically disappeared from the cell with you?! DREAM: I thought I’d be getting out of here and seeing the light! I haven’t seen the light… in ages.

SAM: I sealed it, Dream. There is no light, even in the courtyard.

DREAM: Yeah… Well, that’s ‘cause I said to, you can undo it.

SAM: I guess I could…

(silence)

SAM: It’s-

DREAM: … you could.

SAM: ...I...I can’t believe this, Dream... I…! Every-Everything that you hate about the prison was your idea. You should- You should exp- You should, y’know what?! Y’know what, I’m-I’m glad. I’m glad that you haven’t seen the light in a while. This was literally- this was literally the experience you wanted for the prisoners!

SAM: (Stammering) You made this bed, literally. You- Like, I may have built it, I may have engineered it, but... it was... you were the one that wanted…!

SAM: (Stammering) Do you know what you put Tommy through?! ...This is… I mean, I don’t even think this is as bad! I th- You should be thankful!

SAM: You wanted this to be for Tommy, Dream. You and me both know it. You- We both know, you told me to build this so you could put Tommy in here, didn’t you?

(Dream remains silent)

SAM: That’s why you wanted people to be able to visit. That way you could… flaunt Tommy, who you’ve got stuck in a cell, in front of everyone! That’s why you wanted people to be able to visit, that’s why you didn’t want the courtyard, because you didn’t want that for Tommy.

SAM, angrily: And you didn’t want him to have a good place to live, you didn’t want him to have good food, because, you wanted to- you wanted to give him raw potatoes! You didn’t want to give him steak. You just wanted him to- have a horrible life in here! So, keep it for yourself, Dream.

(Dream remains silent)

SAM: you… You deserve this. You’re the bad guy here! And you’re- you’re lucky I don’t tell Quackity you’re here!

(Dream remains silent)

SAM: Maybe next time it won’t be Quackity who comes into the cell, maybe it’ll be me! Don’t ask me to go to the courtyard.

DREAM: ...Alright.

SAM. Go over there. (Dream moves to the back of the cell). I’ll be back to fill in this hole. And… no- no more shenanigans. Or I will tell Quackity that you’re here. And we both know what will happen. (Sam walks out of the cell) ...You’re very certain of it, so….

(He drinks fire res and pearls out)

SAM: I’ll be back soon, Dream. Just… why don’t you write me a little book, Dream? Write me a book about… y’know, how much you’re going to enjoy your experience here in the prison. Sound good? (Dream is silent)

SAM: And if you know something, about Techno, Dream? I expect that while you’re here enjoying your stay, you’ll think about, uh, y’know, letting me know whatever you know. Right?

(Dream is silent) SAM: Good.

(He watches Dream as the lava curtain falls slowly down)

SAM: That’s all I have to say to you, Dream.