Lin recovered from the attack that the vegetable golem did to her and floated back to Hez's side.

"Are you all right?" her voice echoed from the sword. Hez got back up and dusted herself, still stunned from watching Erebus slay the monster before vanishing. She only acknowledged the question with a nod, not wanting to cause more confusion by telling Lin about the mystery Oneiros.

"Good. This way looks clear now. The third floor doesn't look to be as active, so you hurry on up. The rest of us will stave the monsters off here. Be quick about purifying that artifact!" Lin ordered as she flew back into the battle and diced up a can of stale soda rolling towards them like a giant barrel. Hez gathered her wits and dashed towards the next flight of stairs leading up to the third level.

Just as Lin said, there wasn't much going on here. Unlike the other floors, there was no food in sight. It felt more like an actual room than a large fridge shelf. From her night vision, Hez could see faint hints of curtains, mirrors, a sink and some kind of chair... or was it a toilet? Was she inside a bathroom all of a sudden? But she couldn't worry about that now. In the middle of this dark room was an object on the floor emanating a tremendous amount of negative energy, the air thick with a terrible miasma that felt like a constant inferiority complex of some kind. The darkness radiated in several different colors like a kaleidoscope - perhaps to represent the three dreamers connecting this world together - but then those colors shifted into darkness and seeped down to the lower floors. This was the cause of the monsters the team was fighting right now.

Hez couldn't tell what the object was, but it was definitely the source of this negative emotion. She felt the pressure of three different people suffering from whatever mental ailment they shared, wondering if she could possibly cleanse such a powerful artifact. She had to steel her nerves and get ready - her comrades, and three people in the real world, were counting on her to end this.