He sips the cocoa, and finally starts to try to describe what he saw.
"I.. that is, in my dream, I was looking into the sky, when suddenly, my telescope exploded. Then, first a few, then all at once, like it was raining, the stars of the milky way fell from the sky, and the sky turned ...dark. Not like the black of a night without sky, but a pulsing, foreboding color - green, and red, Thistle would have more accurate tones to elucidate with, had she seen it."