It's all very complicated, and Tenn is still as considers it. So, some people choose to travel within the layers rather than being pulled unexpectedly? That is good. Though he'd prefer not to have to die to return to his world... he's not going to say that. Dark humor would not go over well, circumstances being as they are.

"Intriguing... it sounds chaotic, but the layers exist in harmony. Though if I came through a portal to get here, I wouldn't have known." He doesn’t remember anything of the passage, not even getting the circular marking the other Dreamfolk have, and that worries him.

He goes on to admit, "Nothing resembling what you or these books have described is acknowledged as existing in my world." Even in the whimsical dramas and musical he's played in recently... those details about worlds colliding were only a basis for a plot, a little imagination for the audience to pull them into the dream. "The concept is considered mere fantasy by most." A considering pause. "Or we may just be unaware of such things."