Ezra opened his eyes and found himself in a very familiar white room. He got up from the ground and looked around; it was the white room where he talked to the voice.
"I didn't expect us to speak again until after a year, but here you are," the voice spoke to Ezra.
"You could have ignored me if you didn't want to talk," Ezra said.
"When I said we wouldn't talk for a year, I didn't mean I didn't want to talk. The reason is that coming here gets harder each time. So, if you stayed away for a year, it would reset, and we would be able to talk. But after this encounter, a year may not be enough. This time, you fell deep, very deep into the subconscious. So deep that a step further would be death," the voice explained.
"So I am on the line right now?" Ezra asked.