The reply

"My dear Child, my dear Enryu,
It seems you have been blessed with the divinities. I have gone over the events you have transcribed in your dreams, and this is what I think it means:"

But the rest of the letter arrived singed, taken by what seemed like a fireball. James could only make out the closing statements of the letter:

"At the end of it all, it seems you have to climb that big tree. At the top, you will see the meaning of the second dream, and since in the first you did dream of the afterlife, the second has to be of eternity.
Love,
Your mum, always."

James read it out loud. He sat back on his bed, before stuffing the paper underneath the straw of his bed.
The big tree... He muttered to himself.
There was only one big tree around here, and it was the very heart of The Institute. That Giant Tree was the very one he was sworn to protect.

a fireball?