They were like glass... along with the birds, and flowers... it was like being in stasis, until they came into contact with us... and immediately they changed.

( what did they do? give life to what's already dead? after what helena did by killing them all in one fell swoop, that doesn't seem like the case. )

Was that part of your dream different?

( he pauses, looking out beyond the horizon... is the spider lillies out? )