The group of Idia, Ortho, Vil, the prefect, Grim, Silver and Sebek arrive in Kalim‘s dream, where he is a second-year student at a magic school built by his own father.
He calls on “a veritable army” of servants to prepare a party for the visitors and dream-Jamil appears, calling Kalim his best friend.
Jamil is also a second-year student at the new academy, is uncharacteristically friendly, and asks Kalim to fetch ice cream for the guests, surprising the group.
Grim almost wakes up Kalim by reminding him that Jamil responded to Kalim’s request to be friends with, “not on your life.”
Grim reminds Kalim about Jamil sending them “to the ends of the earth” in Book 4 and the dream-Jamil uses his unique magic on Kalim to control him.
Vil wakes up Kalim by reminding him of what Jamil is really like and of the VDC. Kalim wakes up, saying that Jamil has only ever been worried about him because he is Jamil’s boss, not because he is his best friend.
They move to Jamil’s dream where no one recognizes Kalim and his house is gone, sold after his family’s business failed and bought by Jamil’s father. Kalim’s family now works as servants for Jamil’s family much like how Jamil’s family works as servants for Kalim’s family in reality.
Jamil is Student Council President at the academy he attends in his dream.
Kalim wakes Jamil up by reminding him about experiences in their childhood and the incident of Book 4. A dream-Kalim appears and promises Jamil that he will be a ruler forever with money, land and freedom, if he stays.
Jamil is dragged into a deeper dream, which is a timeline where he successfully ousted Kalim from the position of housewarden and sent him home. Jamil outlines a plan to get rid of the other housewardens and Crowley to become the ruler of the school.
Kalim punches Jamil, telling him that “a prize earned through dirty trickery” isn’t what Jamil really wants and they get into a physical fight while Silver observes, “Sometimes a fist fueled by emotion is more effective than any words.”
Kalim observes that this is the first time they’ve fought in 17 years and Jamil reminds him that if he beat Kalim up “in reality” it would spell disaster for him and wakes up, asking himself how he could ever forget such a galling failure as when he failed to oust Kalim.
The dream breaks down as Jamil’s happy ending is compromised and Jamil dives to protect Kalim from being dragged into the abyss.
Kalim tries to save Jamil and Jamil punches him to get him off before they are taken together, being dragged into the abyss alone.
Jamil is confronted with his own overblotted self, bemoaning how much better his life would be if Kalim were not here and he were free. Jamil comments on how pathetic he looks and dream-Jamil blames his environment, his parents and Kalim, but Jamil says he is the one who embarrassed himself by rushing in recklessly and botching everything.
Dream-Jamil insists that Kalim is the reason the are trapped and suffocating but he could show them all if he stopped holding back and Jamil says that his narrow-mindedness is actually what is robbing him of his freedom, but he accepts that dream-Jamil is himself.
Dream-Jamil says they are fated to be trapped and run ragged until someone sets them free and Jamil says he does not want to trust his wish to someone else, he is done bemoaning his situation and feeling sorry for himself, and done ignoring his own desires and ambitions, transforming into his overblot form.
Jamil returns to the dream where Kalim is his servant and uses his unique magic to send the dream-Kalim away forever, saying that he has no interest in freedom and power handed to him by someone else.
Vil volunteers to return to his dream while Kalim has been too injured by Jamil to continue. Jamil joins Silver and the others as they move on to the next dream.
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