Healing the land on that scale--even I have not accomplished such a thing.

[The Commune, for all its wonder, is still very localized. His power, in the dream, was limited. Viktor still remembers the offer from the Doctor, to surpass those limits.

Istredd is right that none of this came without sacrifice, or distress. Viktor thinks he's still coming to terms with it. Easier, to think it's just a dream, though he still feels the need to atone. Confessing his wrongdoings seems indulgent, less pertinent than telling Istredd about how close things were to their time as gods.]

I admit that what I became in the dream bore...striking similarities to the imagined future we experienced.

[It makes him wonder just how much might be destined, no matter what, even across universes.]