Kuno: Caracara Dream

You find yourself unusually weary this night, and when you dream, you fall into a sleep like the void. You see nothing but black, but it is a blackness you are aware of, that you can feel. You connection with SAFEGUARD has grown to the point that you seem almost persistently aware of the energy flows in the deep field, the ocean of flowing information existing in a pseudo-real non-space permeating reality. In your dreams it fills your mind with a multitude of whispered points of information such that it is a meaningless hum about you.
You can feel SAFEGUARD, feel his intelligence pinging in the field. Moving in it. You feel others, too, however. Minds swimming in the ocean of data like fish swimming in the sea. Some are so primitive as to be little more than impulses. Others so alien and ephemeral that you only understand their presence in the abstract, knowing that your two realities are not even coterminous.
It is in this dream, that you feel the presence of PASSMIND. It seems to fade into being around you, as if submerging up from a direction you did not know existed. Your instinct is to draw away, to flee from this space you are increasingly aware of is not a dream, but there is nowhere to go. His presence subsumes you.
It also, you quickly realize, cannot hurt you. Whatever else your bond with SAFEGUARD has done to you, it has also fortified your psyche in this place. PASSMIND seems to know this, for it does not try to attack. Instead, it you see a familiar scene high in the void, of a broken and shattered structure, the one that once held the key that now resides within you.
You can see the field stretched thin here so far from Aramanth, but in the data flows you can feel the ripples resonating through the field from your attempt to tap into the Monolith's power, the attempt to reshape time and space to bring back your people. Though hidden to reality, in this space you can see how it failed, how your miscalculations caused the infinitely complex field equation to collapse in on itself.
"Your people live," PASSMIND says. "You merely lack the eyes to see and the mind to retrieve. But you know now. The Monolith can expand the scope of yourself. It can reframe your view on reality and allow you to divert your ruinous past."
You feel the semi-dormant SAFEGUARD inside you, and know PASSMIND's words are hidden from it. "Why do you think you failed in your task? It is because that one seeks to suppress the Monolith. SAFEGUARD restricts you, and will continue to restrict you. It would see the Monolith returned to sleep, and never again would your people reunite with this iteration of yourself."
Through the ripples in the field you can see the images of forming in the data, ghosts of your people, shadows in the equations that would have rewritten your past. For just a second, they seem as clear as day in your mind before the points of data dissolve and the image fades.
"Forsake the Great Inhibitor. Grant me access the secrets of the Monolith will open onto you. The illusion of time and space will be revealed and you will see how easy it is to undo the tragedies of your life. How easy it is to return to yourself that which is lost."
The image of the void fades, melting into an all-consuming view of the Monolith and the feeling of being stared at by a piercing red light. "When the time comes. All you must do is submit."