[This isn't Lilith telling him something she's learned secondhand, she's sharing something she's experienced. The fact that the Beholding is apparently powerful enough to mess with her is troubling, at best, and downright terrifying at worst.]

So he's an absolute cunt, then, good to know.

[There's a difference between dragging the occasional bits of information out of people, or Knowing things without being able to entirely control it, but if he's going around forcing people to relieve their nightmares, that's a real dick move.]

All he did was ask me a question I found myself answering, is a statement much like that?

[He doesn't like asking, since clearly this is a sensitive topic, but it's worth it to know what to be on the look out for.]