The Polyglot's Nightmares: Part X½ in the Narrative of John of Origin

A search for the self in which Ion, a refugee of war, flees into the wilderness and finds a strange wall with a strange language on it. He tries to learn the language and eventually ventures to a cave in hopes of finding rest. There, he meets a woman named Sam, who seems to sympathize with his condition. As he falls asleep in the cave, he is plagued by bizarre dreams that are strangely lucid and involve both Sam as an active participant in the dream and the strange language that he has discovered. During the dreams, Ion is continually preparing for some sort of conflict against the darker elements of his mind. Can Ion and Sam defeat the darkness and escape the terror of the sleep-inducing caves?