Nicely done! Your story is my favorite yet, although it is the first one I read haha. But seriously, you took a great turn. I love this grown Vartan, wise enough to handle the oniric and the earthly in balance, working as hard in his learning from dreams as in passing on what he learnt.

But! Your ending also gave me chills and that's something I loved as well!

Yet over and over again angles that shouldn’t work did.

That sounded to me as something dark (I might be influenced because I'm reading Lovecraft haha), and I couldn't help but thinking... What will this otherwordly knowledge bring and how will it affect, and be seen in, the future? I would very much like to keep reading where you would take your story.

I think your intent is much more... Positive? Than what, for instance, Lovecraft thought of bringing forth a knowledge lost to us into the world...

Thanks for a great read!