"...you said you were some sort of a bridge between us. Care to elaborate more on that?" Ashton asked.
"Well, as you can see we turned into statues because of the Twisting Heavenly Tree. We sacrificed our freedom to seal the Blue Planet and prevent the true army of the invaders from descending."
"We're not necessarily in slumber. We're acutely aware of the real world still but we also are stuck in some kind of a special plane of reality, if you will."
"In there, we could see each other and we could also talk. In there, we could see the seal we are powering and we could repair it in real-time should the invaders decide to damage it."
"We could leave the place at any time but it's too risky. The invaders could attack the seal at any given moment and we don't have a way of knowing how much damage they'll cause so we have to be constantly on alert."