“Not likely. Dreams are pretty and usually involve horses or rainbows or castles, or big-”
“You've probably all had those kinds of dreams that are like usual life, except that a lot of things are not the same, and you seem to know the future in them. Well, this is because these other worlds where two things can happen spread out from our world like rainbows, and sort of flow into one another-”
“We're like pretty horses, and just as on horses, they mean to put blinders on us so we can't look left or right but only straight ahead where they would lead.”
“Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.”
“It would sound like a dream,” said Billy. “Other people’s dreams aren’t very interesting usually.”
“But what about the horses? Have they always had horses here?""Probably. Colonial words usually have horses; they're cheap local transportation,self-replicating.”