THE REMVERSE TRADE WEEKLY · EST. 1987 · BRINGING DREAMS TO LIFE & LIFE TO DREAMS · NIGHT DESK EDITION
Dreaming Live is the official hub for the REMverse — the fictional dream-recording world of the real novel Company Dreamer. Nightly box-office charts (Dream Bow vs Mind Bard), industry news, a working dream journal and a plain-English field guide. The country’s number one dreamer, Vi the Multi, has dreamed the same unsellable loop for weeks. Start here — end in the novel.
Plain English: the industry is made up, the book is real. Everything here plays in-character for fun, then points you to the novel. Lost? 30-second primer ↓
Psst — Vi loops on purpose. Read why →
START HERE / 30-SECOND PRIMER · NOVEL WORDS, PLAIN ENGLISH
WHAT THIS SITE IS
Dreaming Live is a playful fan hub for the novel Company Dreamer. Plain English: everything industry-flavored here is fiction performing for you; the book at the end is real.
WHAT THE REMVERSE IS
A world where recorded dreams (REMvies) play in theatres like films. Plain English: dreamers are celebrities, studios are studios, charts are box office.
WHO VI IS
Vi Carrow, a Multi (dreams every genre) at Dream Bow, is #1 — and stuck looping (same dream nightly) to escape her father’s studio. Plain English: the star is sabotaging her own show to get free.
WHAT TO DO HERE
Check the charts, open any Night Desk headline for its full story, log a real dream of yours, play Embed Night, then read Vi’s novel. Plain English: browse → open → play → read the book.
UP NEXT → Charts (top-10 box office) → · Supplemental shelf →
STUDIOS / WHERE DREAMS PLAY
Every REMvi you log here would play at one of these houses. Unsure where yours fits? Check the Field Guide or log it for tiering.
STU-01 · CHICAGO
Number two studio. Number one dreamer.
Corin Carrow’s house. Twelve to fifteen dreamers per genre. Home of Vi the Multi, Kara the Queenie, Belle the Mare and Jimmy the Flier. Intra-strategizing in full swing: dreamers dreaming each other to save tralley wages.
SHOW MUST GO ON · R.A.D.R. EMBEDS ACTIVE · RECROOMS MONITORED
STU-02 · FIRST IN BUSINESS
Biggest catalog. Purest dreams (they say).
Hobbes Sharez’s house. First to distribute a REMvi (Maddie’s). Twice the dreamers per genre. Home of Otis, Marcey, Gill, Oland, Ulrika — and the rights to Mad’s dreams. No commissioned intra-specking, by decree.
COMMITMENT TO SHARING · 3/4 OF PROFIT DONATED · CATALOG UNMATCHED
STU-03 · INDEPENDENT
Dreams as holy ritual.
Babs Mackey’s metaphysical house, ex-Bow Flier. Self-proclaimed religious institution; profits tax-exempt, doctrine-forward. Most shameless tralley-sponsor integrator in the game. Wealthiest active Luna at the helm.
THEOS ONLY · SPONSORS WELCOME · DOGMA NON-REFUNDABLE
STU-04 · BRISTOL + INSLICE
Prophets and Throbbers.
Egg String (Bristol) boasts two prophesying Fliers. InSlice stays afloat on one Throbber: Freddy, seventh-highest grossing. Proof you don’t need a roster — one reliable Luna pays the light bill.
FORTUNE-DREAMS: FEW VERIFIED · THROBBERS: NEVER UNDERESTIMATE FEBRUARY
OFFICIAL STANDINGS / TOP TEN GROSSING DREAMERS
As ranked in Company Dreamer: Dream Bow holds 1st, 3rd, 8th; Mind Bard holds 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 10th; InSlice 7th; Reverie 9th. Complete to project your tier.
| RANK | DREAMER | GENRE | STUDIO | STATUS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Vi Carrow — Vi the Multi | Multi | Dream Bow | LOOPING · FILE → |
| 02 | Otis Sharez | Romance/Adventure Throbber | Mind Bard | ACTIVE |
| 03 | Kara O'Reilly | Drama Queenie | Dream Bow | ACTIVE · 4 NEURRAS |
| 04 | Marcey | Drama | Mind Bard | ACTIVE |
| 05 | Gill | Comedy | Mind Bard | ACTIVE |
| 06 | Oland | Multi | Mind Bard | ACTIVE |
| 07 | Freddy | Throbber | InSlice | ACTIVE · SOLO ANCHOR |
| 08 | Belle Braiden | Horror Mare | Dream Bow | RED ALERT · “GET HERE NOW” |
| 09 | Babs Mackey | Theo / Spiritual | Reverie | ACTIVE · WEALTHIEST LUNA |
| 10 | Ulrika | Horror Mare | Mind Bard | ACTIVE |
| — | Jimmy Easton | Sci-Fi Flier | Dream Bow | 4 NIGHTS NO BUG · ON LEAVE |
| — | Maddie Sharez | Multi (legacy) | Mind Bard catalog | FIRST DREAMER · REPERTORY |
| ?? | You, possibly | — | — |
TOP TEN PER COMPANY DREAMER CH. 3–4 · JIMMY UNRANKED (FALLEN FROM FLIGHT) · MADDIE IN REPERTORY · WHY VI LOOPS →
THE NIGHT DESK / DEADLINE × ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY FOR DREAMS
Your trade weekly for the REMverse, drawn from Chapters 1–5. Every headline opens a full story — filed by our Press Corps, the media figures who cover dreamers’ lives.
LOOP WATCH · CH. 1
Childhood home, stairs, old bedroom, pillow. Same players, same plot; setting and audio drift. Unsellable by design — or defiance. Corin: “The show must go on.” Summoned two hours early for an extra REM cycle.
CODE: RR21953C-66M08/02/2064 · STATUS: UNUSABLE · STRATEGY: SUSPECTED
FLIERS · CH. 2
Dream Bow’s #1 Flier dark since Monday. Vi checked the RECroom log herself. Jimmy claims leave (mother ill); Kara knows something; the Belmont library mod project smells like cover. Fortune-dreams don’t file themselves.
AMPHIBIAN BURIAL DREAM STILL UNVERIFIED · SINKHOLES NEITHER CONFIRM NOR DENY
EMBEDS · BY BAX’S V.P.S.
Dream Bow orders dreamer overlap: Vi in Kara’s dreams and vice versa. Intra-strategizing saves tralley wages and strengthens brand. Kara: “sleepy-time sisters.” Vi: pushes her into a parked transport.
ONE ALERT · TWO DREAMERS · ZERO CONSENT SOUGHT
BOX OFFICE · REMVI INDEX
Vi’s test dream Lamb Seed invented multi-POV ensemble playback. Her Babs-tralley comedy Basket Casers died on arrival. Belle’s Maddie-drowner Playing Mad remains the highest-earning horror REMvi ever.
MULTI-POV: EVERY TRALLEY + SPECK · REWATCHABILITY: UNMATCHED
TECH · L.D.M. WATCH
Mind Bard’s Throbber moonlights as engineer: the lucid dream machine (L.D.M.) stabilizes conscious envisioning into D.D.V. Built on REMvi footage, aimed at recalling Maddie. Vi hasn’t been told. Corin digs around her mind.
COGNITIVE RESTRICTORS: SIDE EFFECTS NOTED · SECRECY: PARAMOUNT
RED ALERT · BELLE
Dream Bow’s Mare, media liaison, ex-gerontologist, shortest dreamer in the business, low-angled POV queen. For Belle to page ambiguously is uncharacteristic. Vi and the embed are rolling. Otis was told to stay behind.
PRINCESSING: UNLIKELY · BITCH-MODE: POSSIBLE · ETA: UNKNOWN
NIGHT MARKET / CLASSIFIEDS · TRALLEY WAGES PAID · SHELLS TIP GENEROUSLY
PRESS CORPS / THE SPIN-OFF SECTOR · NOVEL WORDS, PLAIN ENGLISH
Dreamers dream; these five turn it into copy. Plain English: fictional journalists with beats, rivalries and inboxes. Every byline below opens its full story.
DEALS & EMBEDS · BY THE NUMBERS
Counts tralleys like calories.
Contracts, R.A.D.R. orders, tralley-wage math. First to the filing, last to the adjective. Feuding with the Night Auditor over what “counts” as a gross.
BEAT: EMBEDS + WAGES · LATEST: R.A.D.R. #000325.1 →
CRITIC-AT-LARGE · STARS, NO MERCY
Stay for credits.
Capsule reviews and Neurras odds. Gave Kara four stars and Jimmy a lecture. Believes Fliers could win if they stopped prophesying and started editing.
BEAT: REVIEWS + NEURRAS · LATEST: Lamb/Basket/Mad →
BOX OFFICE · ANONYMOUS
Audited nightly.
Charts, loops, sellability. Never seen, always counting. Says Vi’s loop is either sabotage or genius and refuses to say which pays better.
BEAT: CHARTS + LOOPS · LATEST: RR21953C anatomy →
TECH · COMPLIANCE-ISH
Reads the manual. Then the hacks.
L.D.M., D.D.V., V.P.S. mods, Belmont pods. Explains the rig in plain English, then buries the lede Corin would kill for. Bax has questions.
BEAT: RIGS + HACKS · LATEST: Otis’s machine →
GOSSIP & TRANSPORT · IDLING OUTSIDE
You heard it idling.
Embeds on the move, red alerts, RECroom absences. Knows what Kara drank, what Jimmy dodged, what Belle paged. Sources: transports.
BEAT: ABSENCES + ALERTS · LATEST: Jimmy dark ×4 → · Belle pages →
YOU? · STRINGER DESK
Vacant. Overtime expected.
The Corps needs a loop correspondent: someone logging nightly, leaking daily. Plain English: that’s you — log three nights and claim the chair.
BEAT: YOUR DREAMS · START: Dream Log →
UP NEXT → Cast dossiers (the covered) → · Supplemental shelf →
REMVERSE DOSSIERS / STRAIGHT FROM CHAPTERS 1–5
Ranked Lunas plus the two that haunt the charts: Jimmy (fallen Flier) and Maddie (first Multi). Execs (Corin, Hobbes) and Shells (Bax) work the Desk, not the cards. Filter by novel genre.
01 · MULTI · DREAM BOW · LOOPING
“I can't help what I dream.”
Auburn bell-bob, right-ear rub when nervous. Ten years exposing her inner dreams; IP signed to Corin, seven years left. Invented multi-POV with Lamb Seed. Now looping RR21953C: Corin kills Vi, nightly. Training her brain to loop — on purpose.
FIRST REMVI: LAMB SEED · SPECKS: CAL + ILIE · FULL FILE ONLY IN THE NOVEL →
02 · THROBBER · MIND BARD
Clone of Hobbes. Heart of Vi.
Romance/adventure Throbber, February king, only ever loved Vi — who has never once dreamed him. Dreams elaborate Vi tralleys (moon voyage, elm picnic). Secretly building the L.D.M. to day-dream his mother back.
EYES: SHAREZ BLUE · FEBRUARY: 2–0 VS VI · DANGER: CORIN’S THREAT
03 · QUEENIE · DREAM BOW · 4 NEURRAS
“Be it – Beat it.”
Stick-figured drama Mara? No — Queenie. Toddler squawk, Woe perfume, champagne fridge-raider, functional alcoholic. Top Bow drama, third overall. Dreams felt more than understood. Mawna’s vanishing still unsolved. Re-Oakers at every premiere.
VOICE: EDITED IN POST · VILLAIN-TRALLEY: MAWNA (MISSING) · EMBED: R.A.D.R. #000325.1
— · FLIER · DREAM BOW · NO BUG ×4
Seeker? Sucker? Friend.
Reclusive sci-fi Flier, openly spiritual, tarot for power players, dream lobbyist. ‘Sona: debonair hero; self: soup-stained button-up. Heads Bow tech/R&D. Claims fortune-dreams (amphibian burial, sinkholes). Currently dark.
THEOS: ONLY ACTIVE OUTSIDE REVERIE · TRALLEYS: MOM + DAD INCLUDED · READING: 3-CARD, TRUST NO ONE
08 · MARE · DREAM BOW
“Get here now.”
Shortest dreamer in the business, low-angle dread queen, ex-gerontologist and bio-engineer, Bow spokeswoman. Playing Mad (drowning Maddie) tops horror all-time. Paged Vi mid-embed. Do not keep waiting.
DREAMS: FRAGILITY AS FOREBODING · SOCIAL SKILL: CAREER-KILLING · STATUS: RED ALERT
09 · THEO · REVERIE · WEALTHIEST LUNA
Ex-Bow Flier. Now doctrine.
Jimmy’s old rival, Corin’s early Flier, now Reverie’s metaphysical CEO. Anti-tech Theos, ruthless tralley-sponsor integration. Took wealthiest-Luna title from Maddie. Cameo’d as tralley in Vi’s bomb Basket Casers.
PROFITS: TAX-EXEMPT · EDITING: SHAMELESS · RIVALRY: JIMMY KNOWS
REPERTORY · MULTI · MIND BARD CATALOG
First dreamer. First Multi. Goddess.
First recorded REMvi ever; idealized ‘sona; one eyebrow raised. Mother of Otis, wife of Hobbes, surrogate mom to Vi. Final dream: indescribable image + cacophony, night before suicide — or murder. Still screened; still spoils the market.
FINAL DREAM: UNREPRODUCIBLE · BODY: UNACCOUNTED · BAR: UNREALISTIC
NOT CARDED: CORIN CARROW (WEAVER/EXEC), HOBBES SHAREZ (PRODUCER/CEO), BAX NAZWISKO (SENIOR SHELL) — THEY RUN THE DESK, NOT THE CHARTS · MARCEY/GILL/OLAND/FREDDY/ULRIKA RANKED, DOSSIERS PENDING
FIELD GUIDE / HOW THE NOVEL WORKS
No invented crowns here. Every term below appears in Company Dreamer Chapters 1–5. Learn five and the charts make sense.
First-tier Lunas record nights in big studios. Second-tier Shades (inconsistent box office) and third-tier Blips (rookies/weak) take day sleep-shifts so RECbeds run round the clock. Vi is a Luna; Shades and Blips dream around her.
Multi-genre (Vi, Oland, Maddie) banks most. Fliers fly sci-fi (Jimmy). Queenies play drama (Kara, Marcey). Throbbers throb romance (Otis, Freddy). Mares scare horror, sleep till noon (Belle, Ulrika). Theos preach spirit (Babs, Jimmy’s side).
REMvi (REMvie): a distributed recorded dream. Rapid: a release/premiere. Bugging: Chicago slang for recording — eyes bug so furiously under REM it looks like bugging out. Insiders prefer it stay insider.
Tralley (intra-spectral inclusion): a real person in a dream — living or dead — owed fair wages (parents Easton, Maddie in Vi’s dreams, Vi in Otis’s). Speck (inter-spectral): imagined — monsters, aliens, or Vi’s boyfriends Cal and Ilie, unmatched in any registry.
The pox: same dream nightly. Most people loop, which is why most people can’t go pro. Vi’s RR21953C is a trained loop — Corin killing Vi, variables drifting — unsellable, brand-damaging, possibly deliberate. Log yours in Dream Log.
The rig: straps that leave swollen wrist rings, mask off at waking, suit (Vi’s pink-blue onesie), D.R.M. humming bedside. Jimmy’s RECroom sits empty four nights — the log proves it. Bugging leaves marks.
V.P.S. (Virtual Point System) implant: point screen, G.P.S. — hacked constantly (nav blocks Otis, drones on Vi). R.A.D.R. #000325.1: cast embed forcing Kara/Vi overlap. Shell: bodyguard (Bax Nazwisko, senior at Bow, highest-paid, wouldn’t-take-a-bullet… or would he?).
Weaver: dream-maker, notoriously Corin. Producer: first on record Hobbes Sharez. Cutter/editor: Basi, who tried to blackmail Vi over the loop copy. The show must go on — someone edits it so.
Oscars of sleep. Board-recognized drama feels like out-of-body transcendence. Kara has four wins; Jimmy none (Fliers never win); Vi has the most, by a lot. Ceremonies bought or biased — Jimmy’s words, not ours.
Lamb Seed = Vi’s test/first, multi-POV, 9+ months. Basket Casers = Vi comedy w/ Babs, bomb. Playing Mad = Belle drowns Maddie, horror record. RR21953C = Vi loop, unsellable. Maddie’s final = death-peek, indescribable. Cal / Ilie = Vi’s specks.
DREAM LOG / MADDIE’S RULE, APPLIED
Maddie taught Vi: the day leaks into the dream. Log the day’s wonder/trauma and we’ll tier you Luna / Shade / Blip — or flag a Loop. Stored only in your browser. Bugging leaves no marks here.
TIERING SLIP · TONIGHT
LUNA / SHADE / BLIP / LOOP · BOX-OFFICE GUESS
Logged, tiered, filed. The D.R.M. hums approval.
Morning-after prompt: What leaked in from yesterday?
YOUR ARCHIVE (0) · 0 NIGHT STREAK · BEST —
EDIT BAY / CUT TONIGHT’S RAPID
Pick a set, a tralley, a wrinkle and an ending. We’ll forecast sellable / loop / Neurras buzz — Corin math, not ours. Then log it, or read how Vi’s loop was cut in the novel.
FORECASTS TYPICAL · REFUSING THE EDIT VOIDS THE SHOW-MUST-GO-ON WARRANTY
CUT FORECAST · TONIGHT
PICK A SET → FORECAST
The editing bay is quiet. Basi is not to be trusted with favors.
LOOP CHECK / REFLECTIVE · 60 SECONDS
Vi trained her brain to loop RR21953C for months — mantra, rewatch, repeat. Tick what you’ve felt this week. Stored nowhere. Tiered gently.
LOOP REPORT · UNFILED
Tick the loops, run the check. If you score high, Vi would like a word — in the novel.
THE PROCESS / BUGGING FOR BEGINNERS
01
A five-question assessment covering your day (it leaks), your tralleys, and whether anyone hovers at your waking. — 90 seconds, wrist rings not included.
02
Mask on, suit on, D.R.M. humming. Lunas by night, Shades and Blips by day, Mares till noon. Most clients report only the straps.
03
Wake to a tiering slip. Sellable Rapis pay royalties; tralleys get fair wages; loops get flagged. Practice in the Dream Log.
COMPLIANCE / YOUR CONCERNS, PRE-ANSWERED
Vi signed her IP to Corin and Dream Bow — seven years left, no alternative, too many people counting. It’s not just about you. It never was.
RECbed restraints leave rings. Chem-dream trials ended when a dreamer overdosed at Web Naps. Ordinance 4.33: no bugging while pregnant. The rest is humming.
Your V.P.S. G.P.S. is constantly hacked. Drones love a reality feed. Dash-cams watch the garage. Tralleys get paid — that’s the privacy policy.
“I can't help what I dream.”
VI CARROW · CH. 1 · WHILE CORIN LOOMS
“The show must go on.”
CORIN CARROW · WEAVER · THREAT/PROMISE
“Be it – Beat it.”
KARA O'REILLY · B.B.B.B. DOCTRINE
TONIGHT’S FEATURE / R.A.D.R. #000325.1 · 3 MINUTES · 2 ENDINGS
Dream Bow embeds you for the day: ride the hacked transport, sit the tarot reading (Wheel reversed, Five of Wands, Magician), survive the garage. Four choices. No data leaves your browser.
I · TRANSPORT 12:00 PM
Otis Sharez home: restricted. Goethe & Dearborn: restricted. Jimmy Easton home: compliance.
II · COTTAGE 1:00 PM
Past reversed, present contending, future Magician. Trust no one cocktail. Kara drinks the champagne.
III · GARAGE 2:00 PM
Bax has directives. Belle pages red alert. Close ranks — or keep one image for yourself.
RECOMMENDED AFTER INTAKE + ONE LOGGED DREAM · SPOILERS CAPPED AT CHAPTER 5
READING ROOM / VI CARROW FILE · NO SPOILERS PAST CH. 5 ON THIS SITE
This hub covers the industry through Chapter 5. The novel covers all 25 chapters — Recurring to Retro-Fitting — plus Character Appendix and REMverse Glossary. Genevieve “Vi” Carrow, Dream Bow’s Multi, vs her father-weaver Corin, with Otis, Kara, Jimmy, Belle and Maddie’s ghost in the machine.
WHY SHE LOOPS
Four and a half months of mantra, learned from Maddie (the day leaks in), binge-rewatching her dad murder her — to be unsellable, to be a lost cause, to time her victory. Basi saw the copy. Corin saw the threat.
CHAPTERS: RECURRING → PREDICATING · LOOP CODE ON SITE, MOTIVE IN BOOK
WHAT YOU’LL GET
Multi-POV ensemble playback, Cal and Ilie (specks with no registry match), the L.D.M. in Otis’s garage, Belle’s red alert, Hobbes vs Corin over the recorder, and Maddie’s final indescribable dream. 25 chapters, all gerunds, no filler.
BOOK CLUB / REFLECT
“I can't help what I dream.” — Vi, still in her RECsuit
“The show must go on.” — Corin, by her bedside
“Trust no one cocktail.” — Jimmy’s three cards
UP NEXT → Supplemental shelf (read/listen/meet) → · The Truth →
SUPPLEMENTAL / KEEP BUGGING · NOVEL WORDS, PLAIN ENGLISH
Every door out of the hub, labeled by what it is and who it’s for. Fiction inside, real links outside.
READ · THE DOSSIER
Vi’s full file: all 25 chapters of context, the subject dossier, recovered transmissions. Plain English: the novel’s official site.
READ · THE BOOK
Company Dreamer — Recurring to Retro-Fitting, appendix, glossary. Plain English: buy it, then argue about the ending.
READ · THE COMMENTARY
The author’sparasocial read: one person dreams, thousands live in it — end-dream economics as stan economics. Plain English: an essay that decodes the metaphor, with book-club questions.
LISTEN · THE DREAD
A podcast, lovingly assembled — horror the way Belle dreams it. Plain English: press play if Playing Mad left a mark.
LISTEN · THE NIGHT SHIFT
Five albums of machine-age song — music for RECroom overtime. Plain English: the sound of the D.R.M. humming.
START · THE BOOK CLUB
Export your Dream Log (.md), bring the 4 Reading Room questions, write the Night Desk. Plain English: everything you need to host night one.
UP NEXT → FAQ (answered once) → · The Truth →
FREQUENTLY ASKED / ANSWERED ONCE
Here? No. In the novel? Completely. Longer answer in The Truth below.
Vi signed her IP to Dream Bow with seven years left. You signed nothing here — your log never leaves your browser. Different business models.
Vi can’t — “there truly is no alternative.” You can: close the tab, keep the dreams. The embed ends when you say so.
A loop (cur) is the same dream nightly — the pox that ends careers. Vi trains hers deliberately. Check your loop, then log the leak.
A decade of Multi-POV classics (Lamb Seed ran 9+ months) outgrosses everyone. The loop is weeks old; the catalog is forever. See Reading Room.
Yes. localStorage only — unlike Vi’s D.R.M., Bax’s V.P.S. or Corin’s dash-cam. Export .md to take it with you.
Charts → Night Desk → Cast → log a dream → cut it in the bay → check your loop → embed night → meet Vi.
Because you’re ready for The Truth. The D.R.M. respects initiative.
TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED · PLEASE REMAIN CALM
Dream Bow, Mind Bard, Vi’s loop, Jimmy’s tarot, Kara’s Woe, Belle’s page, Babs’s doctrine — all invented by Enan Joe Heneghan in Company Dreamer (25 chapters, Character Appendix, REMverse Glossary) — except the part of you that was almost convinced. That part is why the hub exists.
A novel about Genevieve “Vi” Carrow, the number one Multi in the country, quietly training her brain to loop so her final sellable dream never comes. She believed in it completely. So will you.
DREAMINGLIVE = THE HUB (play here, Ch. 1–5 safe). COMPANYDREAMER.COM = THE BOOK (read there, all 25). Start with the charts, end with the buy button.
YOU WERE NEVER BUGGED. PROBABLY.
BUGGING INTAKE DL-87 · REVISED · 5 QUESTIONS
90 seconds. No data leaves your browser. Wrist rings not included.
ESTIMATED TIME: 90 SECONDS · DAY LEAKS GUARANTEED
QUESTION 01 / 05
QUESTION 02 / 05
QUESTION 03 / 05
QUESTION 04 / 05
QUESTION 05 / 05
TIERED · PRELIMINARY GENRE
ARCHETYPE: MULTI
LUNA?
Ensemble POV. Rewatchable. Corin is already interested.
PROJECTED TIER: LUNA · GENRE: MULTI
A SHELL WILL NOT CONTACT YOU. TIP: TYPE “WAKE UP” ANYWHERE.
TRANSPORT · 12:00 PM
Dream Bow directive: dreamer overlap. You ride front with Vi and Bax; Kara narrates from the back. Nav is hacked. Day one of sleepy-time sisters.