"Ed was right, you [i]are[/i] a grumpy sort," Parvan said, "Though you're only half right. All of this is definitely Merilia's domain, though I'd like to think we're more of an entertaining terrarium than a playground."

"The first rabbit."

"Point. [i]Mostly[/i] a terrarium. Still, who said this was a dream? It's not quite... real, those of us here can't [i]leave[/i], nor any object of particular power, but it's quite physical, and her witchiness comes in occasionally to collect food that nobody outside remembers how to make. She might be keeping you all from dying, but I wouldn't test how starving yourself might stick."