Eames laughs softly at that command to shut up. He's never going to stop with this, you know that, don't you, John?

"I work with this thing called Dreamshare," Eames starts, his voice quiet and soft, obviously settling in for a story time. "They made a device that links you with other people and you all enter the dream of one you. It works in a very similar way to dreams usually, time is stretched out, you can control the dream when you realise that you are actually dreaming."

The fingers of one of his hands trail gently down along John's back as he speaks, his eyes on the telly but not really watching it.

"So, first they realised the way it could be used in training soldiers. Shooting each other in a dream kind of gives you a good idea how it feels like. Doesn't make a whole lot of well adjusted soldiers but..."