[ She rubs at her forehead with one hand, biting down on her lip for a brief second before she lets go. Okay, she can see what he means. She thinks she understands, as much as she can understand the weird ways this works, but it all comes down to... what. ]

So this is a game that doesn't matter. Like a test run? Or a practice test you take before the final test.

[ Where mistakes don't matter for the end result, but they do matter in how they instruct those taking the exam. Dreams don't follow that kind of logic, so she dismisses the idea of thinking of this as sleeping. Her dreams have been rooted in fears of a different sort, and she has a feeling that the ones she'll remember will probably be nightmares for a while. She'll handle those.

Now, when he says levels? That gives her the game thought, and following through on it, she can better understand. No, she wasn't a big gamer like some of the kids in her former school, but she does know what's out there, and leveling is, well, something people do. ]

What do the places where we have to actually change things look like? I mean, is this similar at all?

[ Is this an introductory level, an introductory test, from which she should be learning from and applying those skills as needed in the future? Yes child you figured it out, this is indeed... a test drive. ]