Changes to Chapter 01 of "The Apprentice, the Student, and the Charlatan"

So I've had a few complaints about how the old opening was. Namely, how it seemed to start off present day, only to suddenly pull a time-skip two-thirds in. Now it looks far more obvious that Nova (and Twilight) is dreaming it all from the get-go, and that the dreams aren't natural given there's a mysterious caster doing it all.

Let me know what you think of the changes, and which one you think was the better way of doing things.